A WEDDING IN QUEENSLAND.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1058, 6 April 1882, Page 4

A WEDDING IN QUEENSLAND.

The following is from the Melbourne Bulletin : —On Saturday, the 11th inst., a fashionable wedding took place at Scots Church, Collins-street, which was crowded to excess, the fair sex, of course, predominating. The bride was Miss Emma Marie Carandini, daughter of the late Marchese di Lazam, Comte di Risi and Vicomte Ferraro, of Italy; the bridegroom, Mr Robert Walter Wilson, a wealthy Queensland squatter. The Bridesmaids were Miss Ida Palmer, Miss Emily Palmer, Miss Parker, and Miss Turner. Mr Gilbert Wilson, of Brisbane, the bridegroom’s brother, was the best man. The bride wore a handsome cream grosgrain silk, most exquistely made, and trimmed with lace worked by her mother, Mdme. Carandini, forty-five years ago ; a veil of Honiton and old point, made by her aunt, Mrs Crouch, of Albert Park, within the last four months—alovely pieceof work, wreath of orange blossoms, diamond brooch, bracelets, earrings, cross, and necklace, the gifts of the bridegroom. The presents she received were very numerous, and all of the most costly decription, amounting in value to nearly £2OOO. Her wedding ring was made of gold got far from the busy haunts of men, 130 miles in the interior of Queensland, a man having riden out there for it, carrying a loaded rifle before him for protection from the blacks. On the conclusion of the ceremony, the path from the church door to the carriage was strewn with flowers by Miss Daly, her sister and brother, and a pleasing novelty was introduced when the wedding party showered the bride and bridegroom in the carriage with orange blossoms, tuberoses, and other white flowers. The wedding dejeuner was held at the residence of Mrs Palmer, the bride’s sister, where the guests partook of an elegant and stmptuous repast, after which the bride and bridegroom left for Ballarat at 4 p.m., en route for Brie Brie, where they will make a short stay, previous to their departure for Queensland. Let us wish them every happiness. This wedding must interest most of our inhabitants, for who has not heard, at one time or another, of the charming vocalists— Mdme. Carandini, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Cotterell, Misses Fanny and Lizzie Carandini (now married in India), and last, but certainly not least, the fair bride Marie.