WEDDING BELLS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81829, 23 August 1906, Page 2

WEDDING BELLS.

GILMOUiI-TFED, At St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr liver ird C. Gilmonr was united in the 1 ond* of holy matrimony to Miss Alice Teed, youngest daughter of Mr D. Teed, of Mew Plymouth. Tho public interest in the ceremony was evidenced by the large number of friends ivho congregated at the church. Kev. F. G. Evans was the officiating minister. Tho bride was most becomingly at ired in a pretty dress of cream chiffon taffeta silk, the bodi;e haying a goffered silk front and rich trimming of minutely looped gofforel silk ribbon, with short puffed sleeves, finished with goffered chiffon. The skirt was richly trimmed with French knots. She wore a r'chly pmbroidercd veil, end carried an exquisite shower bouquet of white hyiemths, clematis, fa'esias, aud smtvflakes entwined with maiden hair fern and lycopodinm. The bridegroom's presents to the bride were a handsome cameo brooch and a gold ring set with rabies and diamonds. The bridesmaids, Misses Emily Rennell and Kat'e Hall, wore panniere dresses of pale blue muslin over silk, and wore creme French sailor chip hats trimmed with creme tulle, aud shaded pink and pale yellow roses. They also wore pretty pearl crescent brooches, the gift of the bridegroom, and carried bouquets of diosina, jonquils, and daffodils, with maidenhair and lycopodinm. Mr J, Flemi ig acted as best man, and Mr W. O. Weston as groomsman. At the conclusion of the service the " Wedding March, was played by Mr A. E Golding, and as the party left the church amidst showers of good wishes, a little mite presented the bride with a white horse-shoe, bearing a sprig of orangeblossom. The bride's bouquet was made and presented by Mrs C. Webster, and the bridesmaid's bouquets by Mrs Skinner A largo number of friends were entertained in a marquee on the lawn, at: " Raleigh," the residence of the bride's father, the bride sitting "neath a pretty wedding bell suspended from the canopy above. The railway station was crowded with friends as the happy couple left by tile afternoon train for Wanganul, where the honeymoon will be spent. The presents received were numerous and cosily, and a big sheaf of congratulatory telegrams was received from all parts of the colony.