WEDDING BELLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 29, 19 July 1900, Page 19

WEDDING BELLS.

ASHTON— EVANS

A pretty wedding (writes our Christchurch correspondent) was celebrated by the Very Rev. Dean Foley, S.M , on Thursday afternoon, July ."», in the temporary church used instead of the ProCathedral. The contracting parties were Mr. Frederick H. Ashton, of the Railway department, and Miss Gertrude Mary Clare Evans, second daughter of Mr. C. 11. Evans, Allandale. Opawa. The brid««, who was given away by her father, was attired in a white satin dre J s with court train and trimmed with chiffon, and wore the customary veil and wreath of orange blossoms. The bridesmaids were Misses Marian and France.-* Evans (sisters of the bride) and Miss Rose Ashton (sister of the bridegroom). Their dres^s were of. pink silk with black velvet hats, and each wore a gold band ring with initials engraved, the gift of the bridegroom. Mr. Bernard P. vans (brother of the bride) acted as best man, and Mr. Frank Sandels as groomsman. The church was crowded by those anxious to witness the interesting ceremony, at the termination of which a few intimate fiiends mat at the residence of the bride's father, whe^e the wedding breakfast was laid. Among those present was the Very Rev. Dem Foley, who made a singularly happy speech in proposing the health of the newly wedded couple. In the evening .111 ■ At home, attended by upwards of -Mo guest«. was given in the social hill <>t Hobb.s"h buildings, and by th-j express next morning Mr and Mrs. Ashton Ie r t for Dunedin, where the honeymoon was spent. On Saturday last they left for New Plymouth, their future home. The bridegroom s present to the bride was a gold curb b ingle with locket, and the brides gi'i to the bridegroom a valuable gold ring set w ith a precious stone. Other presents were numerous and co-tly, nn hiding a magmfi :eut marble clock and a chiqiie lor ">u guineas from the bride's f.rher, and a handsomely workei Lie handkerchief and gifts of a religious nature to the bride fiom A I >unt M.igdal.j.