Orange Blossoms.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 1, 6 July 1910, Page 62

Orange Blossoms.

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BROOKMAN—WHEELER. b~J V VERY pretty wedding took place / | on 27th June at the residence of J I Inspector Wilson, 56, Wick-stead-street, Wanganui, between Mr. Harold John Brookman, late of Dunedin (of Messrs. A. S. Paterson and Co.), and Miss Margaret Francis (Peggy) Wheeler, of Epsom, Auckland. The Very Rev. Dean Grogan officiated at the ceremony’. The bride looked very pretty in a charming pastel blue dress with picture hat to match. She carried a sheaf of snowdrops, and was given away by Mr. Wilson, a very old friend of the bride’s family. The bridesmaid was the bride’s niece, Miss Myrtle Wheeler, of Auckland, and had a sweet cream doth dress and picture hat of ostrich feathers. Mr. Charles Broddie acted as best man. After the wedding breakfast at Mrs. Wilson’s, Mr. and Mrs. Brookman left for Wellington, where the honeymoon is being spent. The bride’s travelling dress was a grey checked tailor-made costume with fur hat, cloak and furs to match. DANSEY—HOGAN. A quiet wedding was celebrated by the Very Rev. Dean Grogan at the residence of the bride’s parents (Mr. and Mrs. M. Hogan), Wanganui East, on June 23, when their third daughter, Miss Ana-sta-tia (“Connie”) Hogan, was married to Mr. Kenneth D. D. Dansey, of Ohakune, son of Dr. Dansey, of Sydney. Among the guests was Mr. J. T. Hogan, M.P., cousin of the bride. Tire bride, who was charmingly attired in a dress of cream crepeline, with train, and silk trimmings, and wearing the orthodox veil and orange blossom, was given away by her father. Mr. Hans Larsen, of Ohakune, filled the position of best man, and Mr. S. McGrail acted as groomsman. The bride was attended by her sisters, Misses Bessie and Tressia Hogan, who were dressed in white silk muslin trimmed with heliotrope ribbon, and hats to match. MEARS—BOND. A very pretty wedding was celebrated at St. Barnabas’ Church, Mt. Eden, on Tuesday, June 21st, the contracting parties being Miss Ruby Bond, second daughter of Mr. J. S. Bond, of Hamilton, and Mr. E. J. Mears, youngest son of Mrs. Mears, Epsom. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. C. F. Bond, looked eharming in a lovely hand embroidered silk dress trimmed with pearls and orange blossom. She wore the customary wreath and veil, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet. Miss Alice Bond was the only bridesmaid, and looked very pretty in a white Indian muslin, with violet hat and a white and violet bouquet. Mr. John Burns was best man. The bridegroom’s present to the bride was a diamond ring, and to the bridesmaid a pearl brooch. The bride travelled in a smart tailor-made costume and pretty amethyst hat. NORRELL—MeGREGOtR. A quiet but dainty wedding was solemnised in the Presbyterian Church, Te Aroha, on June 29th, by the Rev. W. Blair, between Mr. W. Norrell, Tauranga, eldest sou to. Mr. W. Norrell, of Te Aroha, and Miss W. McGregor, of Devonport, Auckland, only daughter of Mrs, P. and the late Mr. L. McGregor. The bride looked very smart in a trained robe of ivory chiffon taffetas inset with silk embroidery Empire panel, and French knots. She wore a tulle veil, and carried a shower bouquet. She was attended by Miss Norrell (sister of the bridegroom) and little Mins Jennie Patterson (niece of the bride). The former wore a stylish tailored gown of green doth relieved with eau de nil, hat of white felt. The little page wore a

dainty frock of white box muslin with pastel pink sash and poke bonnet of white embroidery. The bride was given away by Mr. J. Motley, an old friend, and Mr. H. Prenter, of Waiorongomai, acted as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Norrell, jun., left by train for Waihi, en route for Tauranga. KENNEDY—DYER. A very pretty wedding was solemnised at St. Luke’s Parish Church, Rotorua, on June 29th, when Miss Elizabeth Caroline Dyer, daughter of Mr. R. W. Dyer, S.M., and Mrs. Dyer, of Whakaroad, Rotorua, and formerly of Hamilton, was married to Mr. Jas. Kennedy, only son of Captain and Mrs. Kennedy, of Waiheke, Hauraki Gulf. The Rev. C. A. Tisdall, M.A., was the officiating clergyman. The bride, who was supported by her sister, Miss Eileen Dyer, as bridesmaid, was given away by her father. She was attired in a white doth eostume, and a handsome set of white fox furs. She also wore a white beaver hat, trimmed with ostrich feathers, and carried a magnificent bridal bouquet. The bridegroom was supported by Mr. Guy Dyer as best man. AVERY—BENNETTO. A very pretty wedding was solemnised' at St. Mary’s Church, New Plymouth, when Mr. Thomas Montague Avery, eldest son of Mr. Thomas Avery, of New Plymouth, was married to Miss Queenie Bennetto, only daughter of the late Mr. Walter Bennetto, of London. The Rev. F. G. Evans officiated. The bride, who was given away by her half-brother, Mr C. Downes, wore a handsome Empire robe of ivory charmeuse silver and court train, embroidered with silver sequins; she wore the usual veil and orange blossoms, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet of white roses, daphne, and asparagus fern. She was attended by four bridesmaids —Misses Dorothy Mace and Daisy Gardur, cousins of the bride and bridegroom, and Winnie and Mary Downes, nieces of the bride. The two elder ones looked charming in pale blue cashmere, Empire gowns, white lace bretells, white silk hats trimmed with pale blue and white wings, and carried bouquets of violets and white Howers. The two tiny maids looked Sweet in the same coloured frocks with white silk bonnets, and they carried baskets of violets and white flowers. The bridegroom’s gift to the bride was a gold necklet with ruby and pearl pendant, to the elder bridesmaids turquoise matrix and pearl pendants, and to the little ones gold brooches set with pearls. Mr. J. E. Avery acted as best man. After the ceremony a reception was held by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Avery at their residence, Avenue-road. HOUGHTON—J ACKA. A quiet, but exceedingly pretty wedding, was solemnised on Thursday, June 30th, at St. Alban’s Church, Mt. Eden, the Rev. H. Barnard Wingfield, officiating, when Miss Ada Jacka, elder; daughter of Mr T. S. Jacka, of “Heatherlea,” Prospect-terrace, Mt. Eden, was married to Mr Rowland Houghton, of Hawke’s Bay. The bride, who entered the church with her father, looked charming in a lovely trained gown of striped chiffon over glace. The yoke and sleeves were made of Chantilly lace, a tunic skirt richly trimmed with silk lace, and the whole finished off with plaited silk soutache braid. She wore the usual wreath of orange blossoms and veil, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet. She was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Minnie Allen (friend of the bride) as chief bridesmaid, and Miss Edna Jacka, sister of the bride. The former wore pale heliotrope ninon, the bodlice was trimmed with guipure lace and plaited silk soutache braid, a tunic skirt braided in amethyst, with hat to match, and carried a lovely shower bouquet of violets, and wore a handsome cable bangle, the’gift of the bridegroom. Miss Edna Jacka wore pale pink ninon, made Empire style, with guipure lace yoke and

sleeves, and braided in darker shades brown hat lined with pink, shoes and stockings to match, and carried a shepherdess crook of pink with brown streamers, and wore a handsome pendant and chain, the gift of the bridegroom. Mr Clifton Jacka, brother of the bride, attended the bridegroom as best man. Mrs Jacka, mother of the bride, looked well in an amethyst cloth dress richly braided in black, with toque of amethyst velvet trimmed with a smart wing and gold braid. The bride’s going-away dress wag a navy costume braided in black ana amethyst, hat wreathed in roses. The bridegroom’s gift to the bride was a handsome set of stone marten furs. The happy couple left for Rotorua thence to Wellington. Their future home will be in Hawke’s Bay.