WEDDING BELLS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 494, 24 August 1912, Page 5

WEDDING BELLS.

PETERSEN—MORRISEY. Own Correspondent. A very pretty wedding took place at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday last, when Miss Kathleen Morrisey, third daughter of Mr John Morrisey, of Otorohanga, was married to Mr A. Petersen, son of Mr P. Petersen, of Auckland. Rev. E. S. Wayne performed i the ceremony. The bride looked very girlish and pretty in a frock of cream radiant trimmed with silk insertion, and a coronet of orange blossoms with tulle veil. She carried a lovely bouquet of white azaleas, gardenias,snowdrops and double white hyacinths. Two little bridesmaids were in attendance Miss Daisy Morrisey, the bride's sister, and Miss Gladys Petersen, the bridegroom's sister. They looked pretty in white muslin frocks with hard broad bands of blue ribbon in their hair, and carried pretty bouquets of daffodils and asparagus fern. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr H. C. Petersen, of Ngaruawahia. The bridegroom's present to the bride with a pretty necklet and pendant, and gave each of the bridesmaids a gold brooch. At the conclusion of the ceremony Miss Johnson played the Bridal March from Lohengrin and as the bridal, party left the vestry Mendellsohn's Wedding March. Mr and Mrs Morrisey held a reception at their residence, and about fifty guests sat down to a most tempting cold luncheon laid out in a marquee. A lovely three - decker cake was a conspicuous ornament to the table. Mr Wayne, in a neat speech, proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom, to which the bridegroom responded. Mr H. C. Petersen responded for the bridesmaids. Mr C. J. Johnson, in his genial manner, proposed the health of the bride's and groom's parents, to which Mr Morrisey and Mr Petersen replied. By the evening train the happy pair left to spend th n ir honeymoon at Cambridge.

Mr and Mrs A. Petersen intend residing at Morrinsville, The young couple were the recipients of many useful and pretty presents. Mrs Petersen travelled in a navy blue tailor made costume, an a smart violet straw hat trimmed with a rosette and quills.