Wed in a Smoking-jacket.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 17 July 1914, Page 2

Wed in a Smoking-jacket.

Among the host of New York's spring brides the palm for originality is unanimously accorded to Miss Katherine Burritt, who was recently married to Mr. Harold H. Deeming. The couple were married in the studio of the bride's parents, and the i keynote of the ceremony was un- , conventionality. The bridegroom wore a smoking-jacket of white vicuna, fmi'shed with white satin, anc his trousers were adorned with broad stripes of white silk at the ' sides. The bride wore a long? ; trained, sleeveless mediaeval gown \of white satin charmeuse, elabo- ! rately trimmed with roj>es of pearls and a cap similarly ornamented. | She had no orange-blossom or bou- '.. quet.

Her robe concealed her figure when she stood, but revealed it at every movement, and was declared by the 500 fashionable guests to b« «u----perbly beautiful.

The studio was illuminated with thousands of candles instead of ele;~ trie lights, and the*, walls were draped with Oriental hangings. The conventional orchestra, playing the familiar wedding march from " Lohengrin," was superseded by eight girls in Greek costume, who sang a Swedish wedding march nnd selections from Greig and others. There were no bridesmaids. —" Daily MaH. '