AN ARTISTIC WEDDING IN LONDON.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 134, 24 April 1880, Page 2

AN ARTISTIC WEDDING IN LONDON.

■ l.ridosmaids ever hroiw/nt tn their little Ik* - hoforo an altar. They va e arrayed dr.- j was white satin, richly tsimmed willi .>l.l Venetian point, consistently wills i whirls tlm veil was of |ilnin tulle. She 'I wore in lier hair tliu three diamond stnis presented to her by iiW Henry .Tamos, Mi\, no relation but an old friend of (ho family. On her »«<* liniiC! the (liatnonil pendant given by her ninthor-in-law. Ladv .Tames. The bndesrronm looked not less cheerful tlian the bride. His father, (lie Lord Justice, while lienmiiij on the world, no doubt found his thoughts, occasionally wandering from the presont tray scone, where his son was surrounded with everything suggestive of life, to that far other and recent, scone on the hattlp-field in Zu'ii- - land, with not n little sen* of thankfulness for his safety. Instead of the oonventiontsl breakfast a li.il I was pi von in the ovonincr. From the marblo fountain • on the staircase to the lofty studio, boudoir, drawin'r-room, supper-room, and , back to the fountain again all was beautiful. Tn a doop recess, with a baokoronnd of red Clonnoso velvet, stands IVTtchnol Angelo's statue of Leila and the : Swim. A mysterious liy-lit falls on it jfvo.u n lamp ~1,-h-o. The divnn eneirpHiic tlvi- foin of Roninn art is the favourite haunt forslvav iples. and not less Ivwiliful than the ~..1,1 antique were the living '/roups below. Flowers wore in grout profusion: Ifonrv Vrvinr.' sent in some hampers full the nitrhl h-I'nro, and from many nnrts of Franco they nmn pouring in. The deeorationsof fhoweddinrr cake »i» of real white (lowers, even to the •• tracery." which was oxniiisitely minute. It was delightful to sec the koen npnreeialion shown hv MUlnis for |l„- kindn"is of those fri iids who ramo forward to do honour to the oooas:.ion. For the most rer-t oelehritios to the wnild. here th"v wi the nntnrel domestio intimates'of'the well-loved R.A. "Warm of Iwnrt himself, the manifest 'afTeetion in which he and his are held hv persons of all rinks touched him deeply, The presents numbered about three hundred, mnnv costly, all in gnod tnsto; taken colloefivr.lv, no mean expression of the respect and e4eeui in which two families are Imld.- -World, 1). comber:!.