PICTURESQUE WEDDING

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 1

PICTURESQUE WEDDING

BABY BRIDESMAID WALKS OUT. Lady Mjllicent Talour, the tall, fairhaired only daughter of the .Marquess and Marchioness of Head fort, was the central figure in a picturesque Roman Catholic wedding ceremony which drew Hundreds of people to Westminister Cathedral recently. Friends of the bride’s family and of Mr Henry F. Tiarks, the bridegroom, filled the huge nave, and in the aisles and at the back of the building people stood packed shoulder to shoulder. The cerefmony lasted more than an hour. In the road big crowds were kept in hounds by a special contingent of police. A small army of ushers, headed by the Earl of Bective, the bride’s bro-i ther, was needed to take guests to their places. The earliest guests were there an hour before the ceremony.

The bridge passed under an archway of all palms in the cathedral —a picture of youthful, fresh beauty in her robes of parchment satin, draped witn exquisite lace, and veiled with tulle. Her lnilf> headdress was of orange-

'dossom buds mingled with tiny white flowers, and there was the merest suggestion of bridal blue here and there among the petals. A magnificent ■heaf of Madonna lilies was placed tn Her hands in the porch, and she carried it in the crook of her left arm. Two tiny hoys in long green trousers of Irish linen and cream crepe de chine blouses walked just behind the bride, followed by a group of little girls in long velvet dresses of the same parchment lme as the bridal satin.

One of the little girls, aged only three, gavo the crowd outside a great treat while it was waiting to see the bride and bridegroom leave. She grew tired of the long service and made her way to the porch. She 1 ripped down the steps of the pavement, smiled at the army of photographers, and taking a hand of each of two commissionaires posed for the battery of cameras without a trace of shyness.

The crowd cheered this little bridesmaid and she waved to them in response. She was anything but pleased when taken hack to her duties by her mother.

Tiu< wedding service was impressive as well as picturesque and included an 'ulflress by Cardinal Bourne, Arch- ’ i«liop of Westminister, who iinparted a blessing sent specially by the Pope.