WEDDING BELLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2, 9 January 1908, Page 19

WEDDING BELLS.

LEYDON— O'DONNELL.

A very pretty wedding (writes a D'annevirke correspondent) was celebrated at St. Michael's Church on December 23, when Mr. J. Leydon r of Okarae, and- Miss Mary O'Donnell, eldest daughter of Mr. J. O'Donnell, of Norsewood, were united in the bonds of -wedlock. Rev. Father O'Shea performed the ceremony. The bride, • who was given away by her father, was attended by Tier sister, Miss Nellie O'Donnell, and Mr. T. Leydon, the bridegroom's brother, acted as best man. There was"- a lange crowd of friends at the church, considering the early hour (8 o'clock) at which the wedding was celebrated. Mrs. Dunne played the ' Wedding March J and the choir, under Mr. Dunne, sang appropriate hymns. The party then drove to the residence of the bride's parents at Norsewood, where the wedding breakfast was laid, and the Rev. Father O'Shea proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom. Other toasts were also duly honored. Later on the happy couple left for Napier, where the honeymoon was to be spent. The presents were of a substantial nature and numbered over seventy, and t>evei:al congratulatory letters and telegrams were received -from all parts of the^ Dominion.