WEDDING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8784, 11 April 1907, Page 3

WEDDING.

MENZIES^WILLIS. A very pretty wedding,_ which attracted a good deal of interest, took place at St. Martin’s, Greatford, on Tuesday afternoon, between Mr Duncan Robertson Menzies aud Miss Dorothy Willis, both of whom are Connected with the old families whose names have been known and respected in both public and private circles since the earliest days of the colony. Dr Featherston and Dr Menzies on the one side, and Mr Riddiford and Major Willis on the other, are names which will always stand out clearly on the page of New Zealand’s history, and Tuesday’s Wedding has cemented friendships formed long years ago between the grandparents aud carried down through each succeeding generation. The Church was prettily decorated, and long before the wedding hour, was crowded with gaily dressed guests. The bridegroom was attended by his cousin, Mr Prank Newman. The bride, who looked very sweet, was dressed in creamy Lousine silk, the bodice richly trimmed with point lace aud silver braiding, the same lace appearing in jnedallious on the skirt. She wore a wreath of orange blossom and white heather (the heather being symbolic of the Menzies’ clan), and a tulle veil draped becomingly over her face. She was given away by her brother, Mr T. B. Willis, and was followed by four bridesmaids—Miss Mary Willis, gowned in a lovely dress of white taffeta, ngurecL,with heliotrope flowers and trimmed with velvet of same shade, white felt hat wreathed with white, heliotrope and bronze flowers. Sho wore an amethyst pendant. Tiie three little bridesmaids, Misses Margaret Cox and Norah Gorton (nieces of the bride) and Laetitia Watson (niece of the bridegroom), wore pretty white jnuslin frocks much tucked aud inserted, and white felt hats, they also wore filigree butterfly brooches, the gift of the bridegroom. They carried baskets of wedding favors which they distributed to the guests. The bridegroom’s gift to the bride was a pearl brooch. The weddiug party left the Church to the strains of the

Wedding March and the pealing ot the/boll, aud adjourned to WV-odeu-deau for the customary refreshments, after which the happy couple left amidst showers of flower petals, not uumixed with rice, on route to Wanganui. There was a pretty display of presents which testified to the.goodwill and friendship felt towards the young couple. The bride’s iaotljexvwas inuch admired in- a liaudBoaie , dress of black silk, and a dainty,, pink bonnet. The bridegroom’s mother looked very handsome in a rich black velvet dress trimmed with Maltese lace, and a heliotrope bonnet.