WEDDING AT PAEROA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4527, 14 February 1923, Page 2

WEDDING AT PAEROA.

JONES—BUCHANAN. A very- pretty wedding was solemnised at St. Andrew’s' Church, Paeroa, on Thursday, January 25,. by the Rev. R. Morgan, when Miss Margaret Phoebe Buchanan, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Geo. Buchanan, of Paeroa, was married to Mr Arthur Edward Jones, youngest son of Mrs Jones and the late Mr Wallace Jones, of Whareppa, and formerly of Taranaki. The church was artistically decorated with palms, lycapodium, and white Howers. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a beautiful gown of ivory charmeuse ami Chantilly lace over an nnderdress 0.1, pale pink, trimmed with lover’s knots embroidered in silver and wreathes of small georgette flowers in pale shades of pink, mauve, blue, and. lemon. The bridal veil was caught round the head with orange blossoms, and fell softly over a short train which was lined with pale pink georgette and edged with georgette flowers. The bride carried a shower bouquet of white and pink flowers’, asparagus, and maidem-hair fern, the initials of the bride and bridegroom being embroidered on the streamers, this being done by the bridesmaids. The bride was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss L. Buchanan (her sister) and Miss G. Jones' (sister of the bridegroom). Miss-Buchanan was attired in a lemon crepe-ide-chinc, with embroidered panels, and black picture hat. Her bouquet was of lemon and mauve flowers. Miss Jones wore a dainty latticed frock of duek)-egg blue crepe-de-chine and black picture hat and carried a pale pink bouquet. The bridegroom was supported by Mr N. Palmer as best man and Mr J. Buchanan as groomsman.

A reception was afterwards held at the Centenary Hall, whidh was nicely arranged, and the pale pink .colour scheme was most artistically carried out in the table decorations. Mrs Buchanan received her, guests in a charming gown Qf amethyst charmeuse .with touches of shell pink and black hat, and carried a bouquet of purple asters’, and pale pink sweetpeas. Mrs Jones, the bridegroom's mother, wore a beautiful frock of black charmeuse relieved with white georgette and black hat to match. The bride’s travelling costume was of dove grey tricotine, with a pretty rose pink and grey hat, her toilet being completed by a smart mole cape.