'MAIDS WEAR TURQUOISE BLUE REDINGOTES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 5

'MAIDS WEAR TURQUOISE BLUE REDINGOTES

MACARTHUR — TWIGG A wedding of considerable interest took place at St. John's Cathedral, Napier, 011 f vturday evening, when Enid de Castro, only daughter of Mr and Mrs S. Twigg, of Napier, was married to Ian Hannay, son of Mr and the late Mrs J. S. Macarthur, of Kelburn, Wellington. The ceremony was performed by Dean Brocklehurst, and during the service, which was a choral one, the following hymns were sung: — "Lead us, Heavenly Father, Lead us," " O Perfect Love," and Psalm 121. Mr P. W. Tombs presided at the organ. Tho bride, who entered the churr i with her father, wore a lovely gown of ivory brocaded lame fashioned on Empire lines, the high neckline having a small roll collar and the sleeves slightly widened at the shoulders and fitting to the wrists, with a spraj of orange blossom finishing one wrist. An ex- ' ceptionally long train flared from the back of the skirt, and falling from a coronet of cream roses her veil of ivory tullo formed a second train and she i carried, a shower bouquet of cream roses and maidenhair fern. Eour maids attended the bride — Miss Nancy Logan (chief), Miss Jill Moodie, Miss Helen Coleman (Havelock North), and Miss Kirsty Camerson (Wairarapa). They were gowned alike in redingotes of turquoise blue organdie Broderie Anglais with full short sleeves and'flat revers. The full skirts flaring from the waist were worn over slimfitting linings in suede crepe of the same coolur. Long turquoise gloves to above the elbow were worn, and their coronets were of flame-coloured polyantlius roses, eaeh maid carrying a beautiful shower bouquet of the same flowers and maidenhair fern. Mr Colin Macarthur, of Wellington, was best man, and the ushers were Messrs Jock Twigg, John Balharry, and John White (Wellington). The church was beautifully decorated with flamecoloured roses, carnations and foliage, and was the work oi Mrs R. I. Sutton and friends of t{ie bride. The reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents, Bay Yiew xoad, Napier. Masses of roses and bowls of mixed iiowers decorated the house and marquees. The latter had been erected on the lawn adjoining the verandah and sun porcb, and here Mr and Mrs Twigg received their guests. When Mr and Mrs Macarthur left on their honeymoon tour, Mrs Macarthur wore an English frock and bolero of

navy blue flat crepe, the sleeves and jacket being excmisitely embroidered with flame-coloured roses, carnations navy ht and navy accessories and a lovely silver fox fur.