A PRETTY WEDDING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1561, 25 September 1886, Page 3

A PRETTY WEDDING.

The wedding of the Hon. Marcia LaneFox with the Earl of Yarborough waa one of the prettiest sights that the London world has seen for a long time. It took place at St, Peter’s, Cranley Gardens, on Thursday last, in the afternoon. The chapel waa beautifully decorated with white flowers and tropical plants. The bride looked lovely in her white satin, worn over a pearl-embroidered petticoat. She wore a tulle veil and made me more than ever in love with the becoming aim--plicity of that fabric, as compared with old lace, for a wedding veil. She is just twenty-three, and the young Earl is twenty'Six. It is so nice to see a bride and bridegroom so well suited to each other in the matter of age. Ihe bride is one of the co-heiresses to the barony, her father, Lord Conyers, having no son. Her sister, the flon. Violet Lane-Fox, who is two years younger, was one of the bridesmaids. You will remember hearing how she has been annoyed and persecuted by the attentions of the man Rowdon, who is now in prison for having caused to be inserted in the Morning Post a false announcement that a marriage had been arranged between him and her. The bridesmaids formed a perfect bouquet of beauty. Lord Abergavenny’s two lovely twin daughters, the Ladies Rose and Violet Nevill, were among them. They were eight in all, anil wore extremely pretty dresses of white silk, white crepe embroided in geld, and small crepe bonnets with gold ospreys introduced amongst the trimmings. Their bouquets were yellow roses mixed with stephanotis and brown leaves. Now can you not fancy what a charming group they made 2 Many eyes were turned constantly upon them, and small wonder that

was so j There is sotr§fching in being a bridesmaid that makes a girl’s heart flatter, especially when she is very young. She thinks inevitably of the day when she will be playing the principal part in a similar ceremony, and she wonders, perhaps half guessses, and wonders again who will bo the bridegroom. These houghts makes her prettier than ever, giving a kind of consciousness to her look, and adding a tender depth to her eyes. The soft blushes are ready to come at a word, and when you think the matter over, there is no ground for surprise at the truth of the old adage that one marriage makes many. KThe bridegrooms gift to the bridesmaids was particularly suitable to the occasion. It was a brooch formed of two hearts entwined, in diamonds, and surmounted by a diamond and pearl coronet. The bride received many diamonds among her wedding presents. Lord Yarborough gave her e tiara of wild rosea in diamonds,

the centres being pearls, and a diamond bracelet to match. Beak'es these the happy bridegroom gave her a diamond bangle, a diamond ring, and a string of pearls with diamond clasp. She wore this last at her wedding. -“Madge,” io Truth.