WEDDING

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 229, 24 June 1944, Page 8

WEDDING

Brown —Brown Shortly after returning to New Zealand from duty in the Pacific. Flying Officer Leonard Henry Ferris Brown, youngest son of Mrs. and the late Mr. G. T. Brown, Christchurch, was married recently at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, .The Terrace. Wellington, to Agnes Spiers, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown, Khandallah. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a charming gown of. offwhite embossed satin cut on classical lines, and carried a shower bouquet of cream rosebuds and chrysanthemums. Her beau-tifully-embroidered veil, lent by a friend, was held in place by a coronet of white orchids. ... _ The bride was attended by Misses Joan Adams and Ngaire Back, who wore unusual froeks of flight blue Canadian crepe with two cyclamen lovers’, knots of shirred velvet ribbon on the skirts. They car S ried shower bouquets of cyclamens and chrysanthemums to match the bows on their frocks and wore topknots of the same flowers in their hair. The best man was Flying Officer Ted Fullerton. Auckland, and Mr. John McBride Wellington, was groomsman. . A reception was held at the Boronia Lounge, where Mrs. W. Brown received the guests assisted by the bridegroom s mother.

For Pupils and Their Friends. A dance to which pupils and friends are invited will be held at 8 o clock tonight in the Gwenethe Walshe studio, Willis Street. Pending Talk by Miss Lorimer. , The Business and Women’s Club of the Wellington Y.W.C.A. has invited Miss B. Lor.mer. M.8.E.. to give a talk n « xt „^, ur^p, y evening in‘the Blue Triangle, Hah .Wei lington. Miss Lorimer left New Zealand nearly four years ago to join the stall of Miss Jean Begg, who was commissioned by the British Y.W-C.A. to ""Vertake work on their behalf for women serving with the forces in the Middle East Miss Lorimer was personally responsible for starting clubs in Basra. Bagdad and Teheran, and she willJe scribe some of her very varied expenences.

A fine collection of dress jewellery comprises a number of pearl necklaces, some tiny pearls, some graduated strings, some pale pink and others in different pearl tones. A necklace of imitation jade is charmingly mounted in filigree silver and alternated with square filigree beads. There are plain jade strings and strings of imitation onyx and sofae of tiny chalk white beads woven and plaited, and one of candy pink and white. A necklace of flat gold discs, very ornamental on a plain frock, one of gold chain with the middle consisting of semi-preclous stones, rock-crystal, amethyst, etc., graduated and mounted in gold, and a pair of clips—daisies in two shades of cornflower blue linked with

a flat chain to match are other suggestions. A really lovely pair of very long oval loops of brilliants, set in silver, hare dangles inside and from the bottom of the big loop, and a pair of pearl studs have a large pearl slung on a fine silver chain set with tiny pearls. Another pair of studs are daisy shape set with ruby sapphire and emerald brilliants: another pair are plain crystal single stones, and still another pair are cherry set in silver. Robin and Co., 17 Grey St.—Advt.

A charming tailored hat of superfine brown felt has a highish folded crown with the brim slightly rolled up all round, but rather more shapely at the back and one side. A black bat has two rows of lacing round the brim which stands straight up in front bat is drawn down in fiat folds at the back. They both have lovely lines. Agnes Samson, Lambton Quay.—Advt.