BEAUTIFUL WEDDING
0 CEREMONY IN ABBEY. PICTURESQUE SPECTACLE. Lady Davina Lytton, younger daughter of the Earl and Countess of Lytton,. had a beautiful white-an-d-silver wedd'ng ceremony in Westminster Abbey a few weeks ago, where hundreds of guests representative of the best-known families in the country, watched her marriage with the Ear] of Ernie. Not for 32 years—when the Marquis and Marchioness of Crewe were married there—has there been any hut. a royal wedding in the Abbey ; and for that reason, as well as the popularity of the bride and bridegroom and tlieir respective families, the occasion was of special interest to the whole of social London.
The scene in the great, grey building was wonderfully picturesque, but full of a solemn dignity which accorded well with the setting and the ceremony. The chancel was filled with a fashionable congregation, and in the nave were assembled hundreds of tenantry and employees associated with the Lytton and Erne families. Triumphal music came from the great organ, and then, with a clash of swords and the rattle of spurs, 36 troopers of the .Royal Horse Guards—in which bridegroom is a- lieutenant—marched in and took up their positions In the aisle, forming a guard of honour for the bride. The music softened, there was a slight stir in the west cloister, and then a slender figure in a long silvery gown passed through the wide stone arches on the arm of her father, the creamy lace of her veil, gathered over a tiny chaplet of orange buds, flowing out over her beautiful fanshaped bridal train. The bride carried no flowers and wore no gloves, but in her right hand was clasped a small Prayer Book covered with brocade to match her gown, tfie Prayer Book she has used since her confirmation.
While the congregation strained to catch a glimpse of the bride, tiny pages in gold tissue tunics and bridesmaids in flounced frocks of the softest ivorygauze gathered themselves into a procession, the bride passed through the chancel to the altar steps, and the ceremony began. Princess Ingrid of Sweden was in the congregation. Lady Caroline Paget, one of the prettiest debutantes of the year, was a. bridesmaid, and scores of tlie bride’s girl friends were among the guests. -
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19311001.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1931, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
375BEAUTIFUL WEDDING Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1931, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in