WEDDING BELLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 44, 27 June 1913, Page 5

WEDDING BELLS.

GARDINER—WILSON. The wedding of Mr T. Wilson, lieutenant of, rtlie F;iire Brigade, and Miss Marion youngest daughter of Mrs A. Gardiner, was solemnised .at the Stratford Roman Catholic Church yesterday, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Father Maples in the presence of a large number of friends of the parties. Miss Bessie Sheahan acted as bridesmaid and Mr F. Davis as best man, the bride being given away by her bro-ther-in-law, Mr J. E. Sheahan. The bride was dressed in a dove-colored gown with hat to match, and Miss Sheahan wore a cream dress with white satin, trimming. The bridegroom’s present to the bride was a set of furs, and to the bridesmaid a gold brooch. The wedding breakfast took place at the residence of the bride’s mother in Celia Street, where the many handsome presents received by the happy couple were much admired. The Rev. Father Maples proposed the toast of the bride and bridegroom, and in doing so referred to the fact that the bride’s mother was one of the oldest residents of Stratford, having settled in the district over thirty years ago. In the evening Mr and Mrs Wilson left for New Plymouth en route to Auckland, where the honeymoon will ho spent. The bride’s travelling dress was a neat navy cloth.