WEDDING BELLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 308, 29 December 1914, Page 8

WEDDING BELLS.

A quiet, but very pretty, wedding was celebrated in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, on Tuesday, December 22nd, when Miss Gertrude Alessa (Bessie) Perrott, third daugli. ter of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Perrott, •‘Trefonds,” Whangamomona, was married to Mr Jens Albert Hansen, fourth son of Mr J. Hansen (Riverside), Urenui, the ceremony being performed by the Vicar,, Rev. C. F. Howard. The bride was attiied in a delicate white lace gown looped with sprays of orange blossoms and truelovers’ knots, and wore the veil and wreath her mother wore twenty-seven years ago. She also carried a shou - er bouquet of mock orange, heath, and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaids. Miss Milly Perrott (cousin of the bride), and Miss Rose Banks, wore pale pink silk dresses, white silk hats with pink roses, and carried sheaves of lillies and ferns. Miss Bertha and Gwen Perrott (sisters of the bride), who were .flower girls, looked dainty in cream satin striped sponge cloth, mop caps with wreaths of pink and cream roses, and had sheaves of flowers and ferns. The bridegroom was attended by Mr Bert Perrott (Huiroa). as bent man and Mr Croot as. groomsman. Mrs Perrott entertained thirty-five guests at the wedding breakfast, which was held at Mrs Meyenherg’s, Regan Street, Rev. C. E. Howard proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom. The presents were numerous and costly, several substantial cheques being amongst them. The happy couple left by the 3 o’clock train to Wellington, where the honeymoon is to be spent, en route to Napier, their future home, amid showers of rice, confetti, and rose leaves, and good wishes for a happy future. Ibe bride’s travelling costume was a udbrown velvet, black tagle straw hat, with white ostrich feathers.