WEDDINGS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 11 April 1907, Page 6

WEDDINGS.

GROVES—GRAHAM. A very pretty wedding was celebrated in the Anglican Church, Palmerston North, when Miss Margaret Louise Graham, daughter of Mr Thomas Gore Graham, was married to Mr Thomas Henry Groves, eldest son of Mrs Groves, of Alfredton. The bride wore a dress of cream lustre trimmed with embroidered chiffon and hat to match. She carried a handsome shower bouquet of white cosmus and maidenhair ferns. Miss Braithwaite was bridesmaid, and wore a grey cloth costume, and white velvet hat, and carried a shower bouquet of pink and white cosmas. The bridegroom's gift to the bride was a gold muff chain and locket and to the bridesmaid a gold chain and pendant. Mr Spencer Rutherfurd, of Waircre, was best man. Mrs Graham, mother of the bride, wore black with black lace mantle and carried a handsome bouquet. Mrs Groves, mother of the bridegroom, wore black trimmed with real laceAfter the ceremony, afternoon tea was partaken of at the home of the bride's parents. The presents received by Mv and Mrs Groves were numerous and costly. The honeymoon is being spent in Chri^tchurch.

WILKIN- CADWALLADER. Great interest wis shown in the district (writes our Nireahu correspondent), in the marriage of Miss Pearl Muriel Eliza Cadwalla *r, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs VVin. Cadwaliader, of Niveaha, late of Carterton, to Mr Albert Ernest Wilkin, of Eketahuna. The ceremony took place in St. Mary of tkv Virgins' Church, Nireaha, at 11 a.m., on Tuesdav, ar.d was preformed by the Rev. V.'H. Kitcst, Vicar of j..ketahuna. A large and interested congregation witnessed the ceremony, which was indeed a pretty one. The bride, who looked charming, entered the churcli on the arm of her father, who gave her away. She wore a tailor made dress of blue Vienna faced with white silk and lace, and wore a beautiful white crimpoline hat, which was trimmed with magnificent ostrich feathery. Miss Amy Cadwaliader, sister of the bride, and Mirs Myrtle Hercock, cousin of the bride, were bridesmaids. Miss Cadwaliader wore a neat dress of cream nuns veiling trimmed with lace, and an ecru picture hat. Miss Hercock wan dressed in a pretty white robe, and wore a white hat trimmed with eiik and lace. The bride and bridesmaids carried shower bouquets, the bride's bouquet being composed of cosmas. Mr Albert Cadwaliader, brother of the bride, was best man. The hymns sung were "How Welcome was the Call," and "Trie Voice That Breathed O'er Eden." As the wedding march pealed forth the bridal party left the church, the aisle being strewn with flowers. The party then adjourned to the residence of the bride's parents, where a sumptuous breakfast was partaken of. Mr end Mrs Wilkin left by the South rm. ! l train en route for Chnstcluu'ch, where the honeymoon will be spent. The bridegroom presented the bride with a gold brooch, set with (iia momte, and the bridesmaids with gold band rings. A large number of valuable presents were received by the newly-wedded couple.