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ORANGE BLOSSOMS.

(Unanoidabh/ held over from last week}.

REID—SISE.

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, Dunedin, was most tastefully decorated with white flowers and greenery on

the occasion of the marriage of Miss Dora Sise to Mr C. Reid, of Elderslie. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. VV. Fitchett, and the service was full choral.

The bride was beautifully gowned in rich white satin, the train and bodice having a handsome pattern of silver brocade worked into it, a wreath of orange blossom and long tulle veil; she carried a beautiful bouquet of camellias and orange blossom, and wore a diamond crescent in her hair, the gift of the bridegroom.

The bridesmaids were prettily dressed in pale pink surah silk, the skirts being quite plain ; short bodices of tucked silk, with plain yoke and a deep berthe of cream lace falling from it. Their hats were dark green straw, covered with very pale green tulle, and trimmed with pink roses ; they harmonised most perfectly with the dresses. The bridesmaids wore gold horseshoe brooches, studded with rubies and diamonds, the gift of the bridegroom.

A i-ter the party left All Saints’ Chuich they were entertained at a recherche wedding breakfast by Mr and Mrs Sise. There were a very large number of guests, and the dresses worn were exceedingly tasteful and rich.

Mrs Sise, the bride’s mother, was very stylish in a handsome black brocade with yellow silk vest and collar covered with black lace, and charming little bonnetof gold foundation, trimmed with pale green chitton; Mrs Reid, a beautiful dress of rich black satin, the front of the skirt having small bunches of pale pink roses dotted at intervals over it, a very pale green silk cape, trimmed with black ostrich feathers, and most becoming bonnet; the pale blue silk of Mrs Dennison, with lace trimmings and picture hat, was much admired ; Mrs Mills looked well in a very chic dress of dark brown on apale blue ground, trimmed with a narrow edging of dark brown fur, and black bonnet; Mrs Williams’ dress was a very pretty shade of sapphire blue trimmed with black moire and .jet passementerie ; Mrs Webster wore black, with very pretty bonnet trimmed with violets, and carried a most lovely bouquet of violets; Mrs Rattray wore a very handsome black costume, and pretty black bonnet; Mrs L. McLean was exquisitely gowned in dark heliotrope silk skirt with velvet bodice, and bonnet to match ; Mrs Boyd wore a very becoming dress, the skirt of black crepon with black moire bodice ; Mrs Hosking’s costume was very smart, black skirt with black and gold striped bodice, dark purple felt hat with black ostrich feathers; Mrs Gibson looked exceedingly smart in a handsome black dress and gold bonnet trimmed with flowers ; Mrs Mackenzie wore dark blue, a very stylish costume; Mrs It. Wilson was charmingly gowned in black ; Mrs Hart wore an exceedingly stylish costume of black satin trimmed with cream lace and lovely little butterfly bonnet: Miss Dick wore a dress of dark blue tweed, with black tulle bonnet trimmed with little knots of blue; Miss Dent wore a very pretty blue dress with black cape and becoming black bonnet. She carried a beautiful bouquet of wattle and jonquils: Miss Backhouse wore a very pretty pale blue dress trimmed with white lace, with large black hat trimmed with blue ; Miss Cargill was in fawn trimmed with black moire, and pale pink vest, with large hat trimmed with brown and pink flowers. Amongst the gentlemen who were present I noticed Mr Mackenzie. Dr. Batchelor, Messrs Maclean, Mills. Dennison. Ewing, Wilson, Cargill, Webster. Rattray, J, Reid, J. B. Reid. D. Reid, E. Reid, T. Reid, T. Dennison, G. Sise. The presents were very numerous and handsome. HASWELL —RICH. AVERY quiet little wedding was celebrated at St. Luke's Church, Christchurch, on Tuesday morning between Miss Josephine Gordon Rich (who for the past two winters has assisted Mr Wallace most ably in his chamber concerts) and Dr. William Aitcheson Haswell, of Sydney University. The Ven. E. A. Lingard performed the ceremony, a few guests being in the church. Some of the bride’s special friends met at the residence of her parents, I‘ark Terrace, afterwards to wish the happy pair the usual good wishes to the accompaniment of cake and champagne. The bride wore her travelling dress of black and white check tweed with white vest, the jacket faced and turned back with moiie, white sailor hat and white band. Mrs Rich, mother of the bride, wore a handsome black costume, and bonnet relieved with a little colour ; Mrs Vernon looked well in a pretty decked tweed with white waistcoat and white hat ; Mrs F. M. Wallace, dark blue dress and tan trimmings ; Miss Irving, a brown dress trimmed with fur ; Miss Hutton, in dark blue ; Miss Lingard, a brown tweed with velvet vest and trimmings ; Master Vernon (nephew of the bride) in black velvet with lovely lace collar and cull's and flowered silk waistcoat. Tile bride and bridegroom left for Sumner during the afternoon, proceeding to Sydney on Thursday.

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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XI, 15 September 1894, Page 258

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ORANGE BLOSSOMS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XI, 15 September 1894, Page 258

ORANGE BLOSSOMS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XI, 15 September 1894, Page 258

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