WEDDING BELLS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 3 June 1909, Page 855

WEDDING BELLS

LORD— O'DONNELL. One of the prettiest weddings ever solemnised in Greymouth (says the Argus) took place at St. Patrick's Church on May 26, when Mr. Edward Iveagh Lord, eldest son of Mr. E. I. Lord, was married to Miss Anastasia O'Donnell, daughter of Mr. T. P. O'Donnell. The ceremony was performed by the Very Rev. Dean Carew. The parents of the bride and bridegroom are very old and respected residents of the town of over forty years' standing, and their friends assembled in large numbers to offer congratulations and good wishes to the young couple. The bride was handsomely attired in a beautiful directoire robe of ivory duchesse satin trimmed with silver bullion fringe and Mechlin lace. She also wore an embroidered tulle veil and carried a pretty shower bouquet, the gift of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids were Miss M. O'Donnell (sister) and Misses A. and T. Campbell. They wore pearls and emerald daggers, the gifts of the bridegroom. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr. Lloyd Lord, as best man, and Messrs. J. O'Reilly and G. Holder as groomsmen. The bridegroom's gift to the bride was a gold necklet with diamond and pearl pendant, and the bride's gift to the bridegroom a gold albert and pendant. As the happy couple were leaving the church, Miss E. Kemple played tho Wedding March. After the ceremony the bride's parents held a reception at the Victoria Tea Rooms, "when a larga number of guests was present. The happy couple left on their honeymoon trip in the afternoon, and took with them the best wishes of their many friends.