Lady Clarke’s Marriage

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 468, 25 September 1928, Page 5

Lady Clarke’s Marriage

AIRPLANE HONEYMOON Gowns of Surpassing Beauty LADY CLARKE, widow of Sir Rupert Clarke, whose romantic marriage in Sydney a few years ago caused a sensation, was married at 2 p.m. last Tuesday, at Brompton Oratory, to the Earl of Bective. Rev. Father John Talbot, assisted by Rev. Father Bevan, performed the ceremony. The bride was given away by Colonel Charles Gerrard, and the best man was Lord William Taylour, the bridegroom’s brother.

Lady Clarke’s bridal dress was of tea-rose tinted lace, featuring the long back and the short front. The sleeves were long, plain, and tight, the wrists, like the girdle, thickly embroidered with pearl shamrocks. The headdress was of lace and pearls ,and she carried a red Prayer Book. The travelling frock was a creation of amour in champinione colour, with a cloth coat in a darker shade trimmed with kingfisher fox, and her hat was of satin taupe in deep garnet shade. The maid of honour, Miss Joyce Lindsay, is the daughter of the Hon. Robert Lindsay. She ware deep tea rose georgette, long at the back and short in front, and trimmed with darker velvet and a diamond waist buckle. Her felt picture hat was trimmed with velvet, and she carried a sheath of red roses. The church decorations were of gold and bronze chrysanthemums, and the reception was given by the Hon. Mrs. Robert Lindsay in Park Street, the hostess wearing a gown of black charmeuse trimmed with Egyptian em-

broidery and a picture hat. Four hundred guests were invited to the wedding. Decorations on the staircase, in the dining room and buffet, were of scarlet roses, and in the reception rooms blue delphiniums. The bridegroom gave the bride a diamond brooch, a diamond dress ring and a crocodile dressing case with tortoise-shell fittings. To the bridegroom the bride gave a watch, a ring and a pigskin dress- ; ing case with ivory fittings. Subsequently the bride received in a gold evening dress, and the couple left in the afternoon by private plane from - the Imperial Airways, which was a bower of flowers, for Paris, Venice, and the Italian Lakes, returning to London on October 7. 1 They have taken 39 House, Park Street, for the winter. A huge two-tier wedding cake wasa L feature of the breakfast. Before settling down the Earl and his bride will visit Lord Bective’s ‘ people in Ireland. Many wonderful presents have been received.