WEDDING BELLS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 16, 6 May 1925, Page 41

WEDDING BELLS

; • DWYER—BARTLETT. A pretty wedding was solemnised a St. Joseph's Church, Hawera, on, Thursday, March 19, the Right Rev. Mgr. Power officiating, when Miss Margaret (Rita) Bartlett, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bartlett was married to Mr. Philip Dwyer, Public Trust Office, and second son of ex-Superin-tendant and Mrs. J. Dwyer, Christchurch. The bride, who entered the Church on the arm of her father, looked charming in her simple frock of white georgette and beautiful veil of .blonde lace with long train, and carried a dainty bouquet of white flowers and maiden-hair fern. Miss M. Bartlett attended her sister as bridesmaid, and wore a frock of flesh georgette and black and flesh georgette hat to match, and oarried a dainty posey. The duties, of best man were carried out by Mr. J. Toomey, of Christchurch. After the ceremony, a reception was held at the "Savoy.'' Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. "Dwyer left for Wanganui and Wellington, amidst the good wishes of their many friends, the bride's travelling costume was' nut brown and fawn marocain with hat to match. Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer's future home -will"be in ; Christchurch. ■■, ....-..,..:. . TJViSr .. , ...:. $ ■'■ >■■'■ HANRAHAN ;■; A wedding was celebrated on Tuesday J April .14, .at the j Catholic Cathedral, BarApril 14, at the Cathedral, Barbadoes Street, Christchurch, when Mary Elizabeth , (May) Hanrahan, eldest daughter : of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hanrahan, Lancaster Street, was married to William James Garty, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew ; Garty, Wilson's Road, Christchurch. The sanctuary was beautifully decorated and made a lovely setting for the bridal party. ST§ The i bride was ; escorted \ l to the • altar "by. her * father 1 to the - strains of the ; "Bridal March" from " Lohengrin" the organist being Miss K. O'Connor. Rev. • Father vT.. Hanrahan (Riccarton) assisted by his brother, the Rev. Father, J. Hanrahan (Papanui) uncles of the bride, officiated, Nuptial Mass being celebrated by Father T. Hanrahan. During the Mass an "Ave Maria" was beautifully rendered, by Miss M. O'Connor. The bride was gowned in a lovely frock of soft ivory satin' with tunic of beautiful lace and narrow panel'train of satin, lined with silver tissue. Her veil of tulle was clasped close to the head by a circlet of tiny orange blossom; buds and fell in filmy folds to the hem of her gown. A sheaf of lilies completed a dainty toilette. The bridesmaids were Miss Isobel Hanrahan and Miss Enid

Brittendon,;who wore dainty frocks of georgette in palest shades of | apricot and shell pink respectively. They wore hats of georgette with a single row of tiny French flowers across ; the upturned; brim, : and carried bou- 1 quets of ! rosebuds in - shades of J delicate pink and ;i apricot. The /bride's* 'sister, Dorothy,:: made a 5 dainty flower girl 1 in her frock of mauve georgette' and poke bonnet with' a wreath of pale pink rosebuds. She carried a sliver basket of mauve and pink sweet peas. The best man was Mr. Charles Garty, brother of the bridegroom, and Mr, Paul Hanrahan, brother of the bride, was groomsman. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents, ; where the usual toasts were honored. Among , those present were , the; Rev. Fathers O'Hare (Lincoln), Lordan,.,'...Joyce, Healy, - and Timony (Cathedral), O'Meeghan : (New Brighton), O'Doherty (Rangiora), T. Hanrahan (Riccarton), and : J. - Hanrahan V (Papanui). Later in the afternoon the happy couple left for the south, prior to departing' for their future home f in '.Wanganui!'.. ■' The bride's ; travelling costume was of cinnamon gaberdine and a small close-fitting toque of brown finished with two. soft quills in tones of apricot and flame across the back.Ho;iw|^; • .-.■ :• > ■ hi* ..•■ ,'. ~—b - • I CUNNEEN—POFF. -,; :- ™ I The marriage of Miss' Eileen Bertelle Poff, fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Poff, of Methvon, and Mr. Malcolm Dun* can Cunneen, third son' of Mrs. M. Cunneen, and the late John Richard Cunneen, 'of Tinwald, Canterbury, was solemnised at St. Joseph's, Papanui, recently by the Rev. Father J. Hanrahan, the Nuptial Mass being celebrated by Rev. Father O'Hare. The bride, who was led to the altar by her father, wore a simple frock of powder-blue and pink shot crepe-de-Chine, with small hat of black hatter's plush. She was attended by her sister Joan, who wore a model frock of navy marocain, and chic navy hat. The bridegroom's brother; (Mr. J. P. Cunneen) was best man. After ; the ceremony lithe guests • were entertained at the "Beresford"; among those present being the bridegroom's mother (Mrs. M. Cunneen), .the MissesCunneen (3), Mrs. J. H. Shelby, Mrs. F. M. J. Simmons, 'Mr;.and Mrs. J. ; F. Poff, | Miss Kealy, Mr. Leo Springy ; Mr. Laurie 'Gordon, and Messrs. W., M., and F. Poff. W