IMPRESSIVE NUPTIALS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1930, Page 2

IMPRESSIVE NUPTIALS

WEDDING IN PARIS.

. ENGLISH GIRL AS BRIDE

Never, perhaps, has an English wedding ip 'Paris had such an impressive setting as the yrecent marriage of the Hon. Anne Tyrrell, daughter of Lord Tyrrell, British Ambassador to France, to Mr Adrian Holman, a secretary of the Embassy (says the Paris correspondent of a London journal).

Certainly never have the great grey Gothic arches and the wonderful sJained-glass windows of Notre Dame Cathedral looked down on so beautiful a sight as that of the pretty English girl, clad ill bridal white, walking at the side of her father up the great nave, with her train carried by four little white-dad pages and by two tiny bridesmaids, with long, eldfashioned frocks and silver -nets over their hair. \ The nave and ■, the two transepts, lit by their wonderful oriel windows of purple and blue' ; glass, were filled to overflowing with' invited, guests representative' of both Paris end Lon* don, and the official, and diplomatic world of the two capitals, while,Thousands of interested sightseers stood on chair's' and benches in the rail-off side aisles to catch a sight of the simple but'impressive ceremony. PICTURESQUE USHERS.

The bridal procession, headed by two. “Suisses”—or ushers of the cathedral—gorgeous in their eighteenth century uniform of white silk stockings, scarlet plush knee-breeches, and braided coats, with enormous scarlet and gold bawdries, or sword-lbelhs, and their great white-plumed hats and heavy silver damascened halberds first went to the sacristy, where the private marriage ceremony was performed by Father Mac Darby, owing to the fact that the bride and bridegroom are of different faiths.

Then the couple, went to their seats erected in front of the altar, at the foot of the choir stalls, and mass was celebrated by Mgr Clyaptal, auxiliary bishop of Paris. The six tiny pages and bridesmaids , eat behind the bridal 1 couple on scarlet and' gold 1 faldstools, ’ while in the transept, on the Gospel side, were high French dignitaries and the members of the Diplomatic Corps "Seated in ‘order of precedence next to Mgr Magliorie, the Papal Nunoio. General Lasson represented President Doumergue, and M. de Fouquieres, of the .Foreign Office, was present in the name of M; Briand. tile' French Foreign Minister.

FAMOUS SOLDIERS.

The French army was represented y by Marshal Retain, General Weygand, General. Dubai 1, chancellor of the Order of the Legion of Honour, and the familiay., one-armed khaki-clad figure of General Gauraiid the French hero of the Dardanelles and military governor of Paris. Mine Poincare re- . placed her husband,. the ex-President ’ and ex-Prcmier, who was unavoidably absent. In the main nave, among Hie friends of the bride and bridegroom, were Sir Austen and Lady Chamberlain and Miss Diane Chamberlain, the Duchess of Hamilton. Lord Nigel Douglas-Hamiltpn, the Earl and Countess of Grannrd. the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, Viscount and Viscountess Cowdray. the Maharajah and Maharanee of Baroda, Prince and Princess Sixtus of Bourbon-Panna, Lord and Lady Islington, Viscountess Elihank, the Duke and Duchess' de la RocheFouoauld, Princess Bil>esco, Princess luxeion Murat, Baron and 'Baroness Roller de Rothschild, the Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Sir lan Malcolm, M. Millerand and Mine. Millerand, M. Caillaux and Mine. Chilians.’ TWO TINY COLLECTORS.

Following the French custom, the two little daughters of. Mr Walter Edge, the United States - Ambassador, who ' ; tyere : the bridesmaids, ' solemnly preceded by the two halberdiers, and iJjjfcprtedlby; the s equally tiny pages, Masters William Caven-dish-Bent! Hugh Smjth-Pigott, went found tb take a collection for the poor after the altar bell had announced the solemn moment of the Elevation, and while the choir were singing “0, Mysterium.” As the bank notes fluttered into the two. ornamented velvet purses, the little bridesmaids had difficulty in holding the money, and the halberdiers had to halt every now and then to fold the notes in the overflowing receptacles. When the mass was over, and as the organ began the triumphant notes of Mendolssohn’s “Wedding March,” the married couple went to the side aisle, and Mrs Adrian Holman, kneeling, laid her white bridal wreath at the foot of the tablet which commemorates the British dead in the Great War.