WEDDING BELLS

New Zealand Tablet, 15 June 1916, Page 51

WEDDING BELLS

CARTWRIGHT—McMULLIN. A very pretty and interesting wedding took place at St. Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru, on March I, when Mr. George Alfred Cartwright, second son of Mr. and Mrs. James Cartwright, ‘ Leongatha,’ Oamaru, was united in the bonds of Matrimony' to Miss Mary McMullin, only daughter of Mr. A. McMullin, of Awamoa, Oamaru, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Father O’Connell, who also celebrated the Nuptial Mass. The bride, who was given away by' her father, looked charming in a beautiful dress of ivory crepe-de-chine, with drapings of silk shadow lace and fish train. She wore the usual wreath and veil, and carried an ivory-bound prayer book, the gift of the bridegroom. The bride was attended by Miss Eileen Cartwright, who was prettily attired in a dress of shell pink crepe-de-chine, with a mob cap, and carried a bouquet of maiden-hair fern and pink sweet peas. The duties of best man were carried out by Mr. J. Roxburgh. The bridegroom’s present to the bride was a beautiful diamond and sapphire bangle, and to the bridesmaid a moonstone necklet. The bride’s present to the bridegroom was a travelling rug, and to the best man a set of silver-mounted military hair brushes. After the ceremony the guests adjourned to the residence of Mrs. T. Cartwright, Ure street, where the wedding breakfast was laid, and presided over by the Rev. Father O’Connell, who, in a very appropriate speech, proposed the toast of the newly-married couple. Mr. and Mrs.- Cartwright were the recipients of many useful and costly presents which bore testimony to the high esteem in which they were held. They left for the North Island, where the honeymoon was spent.