A Popular Wedding.

Manawatu Herald, 17 August 1899, Page 2

A Popular Wedding.

CUMMERFIELD— SPRING. Yesterday afternoon the Methodist Church was packed, mostly by ladies, to witness the uniting in the bonds of holy wedlock of Mr Joseph Perkins Cummerfield with Miss Ada Spring. The Rev. W. Woollass conducted the service, and some one had made it a labour of love tp the Communion rails and pulpit ' with flowers and greenery, with very excellent effect. The service is a short one, but the choir" attended in strong force and sang hymn No. 935, " The Voice that breathed o'er Eden " as the bride, in company with her father, entered the church. The other hymn sung was No. 930, "Thou Sovereign Lord of earth and skies." At the conclusion of the service, and after the usual signatures had been made, the bride and bridegroom left to the strains of the Wedding March, nicely played by Mr H. Baker, who presided at tfie organ. ; The bride looked 'very nice, being attired in a white cashmere dress trimmed with silk lace, and having the customary veil.

The bridesmaids were the Misses Emma Spring, sister of the bride, and Nesta Curamerfield, daughter of the bridegroom. Their dresses were of lemon-coloured nuns veiling, having green silk trimmings. The bridegroom was attended by Mr Frederick Spring as best man. After the ceremony the old friends and near relations of the two families met at Mr Spring's house where a sumptuous wedding breakfast was supplied. It was one of the good oldfashioned breakfasts where substantial fowls, ducks, hams, and all sorts of awetts and dainties loaded the tables. The wedding cake, one of the best turned out in Foxton, occupied the principal position, and the designs with which it was covered were admired by all. After the cake had been properly cut and handed round the Rev. W. Woollass, in happy phrases, proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom, and later on Mr Thynne proposed the health of the bride's father. Mr Spring suitably replied expressing bis pleasure at the union of his daughter with the bridegroom. The principal actors in the day's proceedings then had their photographs taken by Mr Whitehead. Mr and Mrs Joseph Cumraerfield have been residents of Foxton all their lives and have earned the goodwill and affection of all. The union is looked upon as promising to be a most Jiappy one, and we desire to express our nope and belief that it will be so. The popularity of the happy couple it instanced by the number of presents showered upop. them. I