PRE-WEDDING TEA
SISTER ENTERTAINS
Mrs. Lan Reid gave a tea party at her flat in Hill Street yesterday afternoon for her sister, Miss Nancy Wheeler, who is to be married next week to Mr. Hillis Symes. Tea was served in both the drawing and diningrooms, where lovely flowers, bowls of deep mauve and purple hydrangeas and statice, toned most attractively with the dark green carpets, palest green walls, and deep lilac curtains. The tea tables were covered with heavy cream lace cloths and were decorated with "mixed bowls" of thrift and other flowers in pinky mauve shades.
Mrs. Reid was wearing a long lilac pebble crepe hostess gown with wide revers of quilted satin, while Miss Wheeler wore a wineberry coloured marocain frock' patterned with fawn and made with a knife pleated hip basque. Her wineberry felt hat turned up at the back with a posy of pinkish shaded Parma violets. A younger sister, Miss Ruth Wheeler, who will .be one of Miss Wheeler's
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 18
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164PRE-WEDDING TEA Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 18
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