WEDDING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 248, 19 October 1937, Page 2

WEDDING

GOWLER—-MERRIE Visitors from Wanganui, Mangamahu, Nelson, Auckland and Palmerston North attended the wedding at Pahiatua recently of Lola Jean, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Merrie, Pahiatua, to Albert Henry, second son of Mr. H. and Mrs. Gowler, also of Pahiatua. The Rev. McNeur performed the ceremony, which took place at the Presbyterian Church. The bride wore a frock of white needle cord lace and satin appliqued veil held with a coronet of pearls. Her white bouquet had touches of lavender. The bridesmaids, Misses Ngaire Merrie and Peggy Burgess, wore lavender frocks, gold halos and shoes and carried posies of gold flowers. Little Valerie Cook, of Wanganui, a cousin of the bride, made a dainty flower-girl in her folden shaded georgette frock set off with lavender flower-girl in her golden shaded georried a posy of lavender and golden primroses. Mr. Gerald Jones attended the bridegroom as best man and Mr. Kelvin Lucas acted as groomsman, the ushers being Messrs. B. Fairweather and R. Merrie, junr. After the ceremony Master Billy McCardle, dressed in smart kilts, met the couple as they left the church and presented the bride with a lucky silver horseshoe. The bridal couple then proceeded beneath an arch of gleaming lire helmets, held aloft by the bridegroom’s comrades in the Pahiatua Fire Brigade, of which the latter had been a member for many years. After the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Merrie entertained some 140 guests at the Foresters’ Hall.