WEDDINGS OF THE WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 11

WEDDINGS OF THE WEEK.

FOX—PAGE. There was a large company of friends of the family beside the invited relations recently (writes our London correspondent) at St. George's Church. Bickley, when Mr. John Mortimer Charleton Fox, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Alexander Fox, of Eliots, Bickley, was united in marriage to Miss lima May Page, the daughter of Mr. A. W. Page, of Auckland, New Zealand. The service was choral. The bride was met at the church entrance by the officiating clergy and the choir, the processional being "Fill Thou My Life, O Lord," the Psalm being the 67th, and the kneeling hymn "O Perfect Love." The invocation, "God be in my head, and in my understanding," was sung in pure voice and with feeling and expression by the choir during the. signing of the register. The _bride was dressed in parchment racine lace over ivory crepe ,de chine and wore a gold chain that had been given her by the bridegroom, the bouquet she carried being composed of cream-coloured roses. She was attended by Miss Matia Rogers, of Nelson, and was given away by Dr. J. M. C. Young, of Dunedin, who had escorted her to the church. Miss Matia

Rogers, the bridesmaid, wore a frock of apricot georgette with hat to match and carried a bouquet of pink roses. Her gift from the bridegroom was a silver chain bag. Mrs. A. Fox, the bridegroom's mother, wore a black silk coat frock faced with pale pink, and black velvet hat lined with pink, the pink carnations of her bouquet completing the colour ensemble. Mr. D. Q. Fox, brother, filled the post of the bridegroom's best man. The music played by Mr. J. E. Hunt, F.R.C.0., organist of the church, before the bride arrived, included a finale by Rheinberger, an andante by Basil Harwood, and postlude by Stanford, the opening passages of the Bridal March from " Lohengrin" being the prelude to the entry of the bride upon her arrival at the church, while her departure with her husband was announced by Mr. Hunt playing Mendelsohn's Wedding March, the bells greeting them in joyous strain as they passed out. The floral decoration at the chancel was charming. On each side of the chancel entrance was a large burnished brass bowl filled with splendidly developed blooms of liliuin auratum built up in pyramidal form in a setting of delicate asparagus sprengi and smilax, each bowl supported upon a slender, smilaxentwined stem. The altar vases bore beautiful specimens of Madonna lilies. A small reception was held at Eliots, and when later Mr. and Mrs. John Fox left for Ashmore Manor, Salisbury, kindly lent by the bridegroom's uncle, Mr Sturge, the bride wore a nut brown coat and skirt, a mink fur, and a brown felt hat.