WEDDINGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 5

WEDDINGS

BARTON—SUTHERLAND. Two of the oldest families in the Wellington district were united on Saturday, when Ellen (Bunty), daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Sutherland, Hinakura, was married to lan Edward, only son of Mr and Mrs E. F. Barton, Lansdowne, Masterton. The ceremony was performed in the Knox Presbyterian Church, Masterton, the . officiating clergyman being the Rev J. Davie. The bride was escorted by her father and wore a simple gown of silver brocade cut on long flowing lines and gracefully trained. Her veil was caught to the head with a halo of orange blossom, and she carried a shower bouquet. The bridesmaids were Miss Enid Sutherland, sister of the bride, Miss Peggy Sutherland, the bride’s cousin, and Misses Isobel and Barbara Barton, sisters of the bridegroom. They were all dressed alike in dainty frocks of blue silk taffeta with blue plaited sashes, and they also wore gold shoes and gold leaves in their hair. The flowers they carried were autumn-tinted dahlias, chrysanthemums and maidenhair fern tied with gold ribbons. Mr Gough Smith, Masterton. was best man, the groomsmen being Messis Sholto Duncan (Nelson), Allan Barton (coilsin of the bridegroom), and the bride’s brother, Mr Douglas Sutherland. Two hundred guests were later entertained at the Masonic Hall, which was beautifully decorated by friends of the bride. Mrs Sutherland wore a dre;s of royal blue lace with a velour hat to match, and a mole fur cape, and Mrs Barton was in a gown of ruby satin with a matching hat. The reception concluded with a dance. When Mr and Mrs I. E. Barton later left on a motor tour of the North Island, the latter was wearing a blue harris tweed costume with a blue angora toque hat and accessories to match. WAKE-EVANS The wedding was solemnised at St Cuthbert’s Church, Eketahuna, on April 6, of Constance Daphne, only daughter of Mr and Mrs C. Evans, of Rongomai, and Alan Walter, only son of the late Mr and Mrs W. W. Wake, Holt-Dorset, England. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was attired in a frock of beige needle-run lace, with hat and shoes to tone. She carried a bouquet of lemon cactus dahlias, gladioli! and blue hydrangeas. Attending the bride was her cousin, Miss Doris Thompson, of Taihape. She was wearing a frock of blue needlerun lace with a cream hat and shoes to tone. Her bouquet was of lemon and gold marigolds and pompom dahlias. The two little flower girls, Audrey Evans (cousin of the bride) and Ella Whyte (neice of the bridegroom) looked very sweet in their frocks of blue spotted net over satin, with silver shoes to tone. They carried silver baskets of blue forget-me-nots and lemon daisies. In their hair they wore blue ribbons and blue forget-me-nots.