WEDDINGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1939, Page 8

WEDDINGS

CUMMOCK—ALLNATT. St. Patrick’s Church, Masterton, was the scene of a pretty wedding on June 17, when Dorothy, eldest daughter of Mrs and the late Mr Allnatt, Dunedin, was married to John, son of Mr and Mrs Cummock, Otago Central.j The Rev. Father Moore performed the marriage service and celebrated Mass. The bride looked charming as she entered the church escorted by Mr R. P. Daly (Masterton). She wore a model frock of navy blue with hat to match and was attended by Miss Edna Nicholson (Taihape), who was attired in a clover green frock with hat and shoes to tone. Both bride and bridesmaid carried beautiful bouquets of autumn 'tonings. Mr' P. Lawrence, of Palmerston North, was best man. A reception was held at the residence of Mr and Mrs R. P. Daly, 53 Lincoln Road, where the guests were received by Mrs Merrick, aunt of the bride, who wore a smart grey costume and a velour hat trimmed with ostrich feathers. Visitors were present from Dunedin, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington. When Mr and Mrs Cummock left on a tour of the North Island, the bride wore a smart brown tailored costume with accessories to match, and carried a beautiful fur coat the gift of the bridegroom. Mr and Mrs Cummock’s future home will be Wairoa.

HARRIS—HOOK. The wedding took place recently at Wesley Church, Wellington, of Zena Ngaire Doreen Hook, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Hook, of Lyall Bay, Wellington, to Darrel Wilton Harris, elder son of Mr arid'Mrs Robert Harris, “Oaklea,” Opaki Road, Masterton. ' The ceremony, which was an evening one, was performed by the Rev Percy Paris; and, if only from an early-settle-ment reunion of families point of view, was of especial interest to a very wide circle of relatives and friends in almost all parts of New Zealand. The bride, who was escorted by her father, was charmingly dressed in a frock of cream ivory satin cut with heartshaped neckline; the bodice rucked down the front, the skirt fitting with a point in front, the back fitting to the waist where it, too, fitted in a point and falling in a very long train, with from neck to waistline, also on sleeves which were made pointed over the hands. The train, made exceptionally long, was edged with a double row of satin loops, the veil, also being exceptionally long, was edged with most beautiful handmade lace and strikingly surmounted by a coronet of orange blossom. The bride’s bouquet, a tastefully arranged shower of cream gladioli, freesias and maidenhair fern, but added extra charm to her natural youthful ones. In attendance, as bridesmaids, were the bride’s other two sisters, Misses Nelda and Aileen Hook, and Miss Ella Aekins, each of them wearing beauti - ful frocks of shell-pink embossed taffeta, with heart-shaped necklines, edged with pleating of the same material about an inch wide, the bodices being cut on the same lines as the bride’s. Their frocks, too. fell in a lovely long train, and finished with a lovely rusched ruffle about 2J inches wide, and short puffed sleeves rusched to correspond with the bodices. They wore on their heads pink heart-shaped Juliet caps made of woodpulp flowers, pink roses and violets, and with a pretty edging of net finished at the back, with ribbon bands. Each of the charming bridesmaids carried lovely bouquets of pink cyclamen and violets, and wore, as gifts, very chaste-pattern - ed diamente armlets. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr Rex Harris, as best man, and had, as his groomsmen, Mr C. A. (“Dombey”) Beetham (of Pori, Pahiatua), and Mr Desmond Hook, a brother of the .-bride. At the ceremony the bride’s mother wore a black coat and accessories to match; and the bridegroom’s mother, a black coat and accessories to match. The former carried a posy to tone of cyclamen and fern, and the latter one to tone of cyclamen and violets. At the after-marriage reception of some 140 guests from adjacent districts and Whangarei, Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa and other parts, the bride’s mother received them in a pretty silk maroon-coloured frock with gold trimmings and with it a neat-fitting ringvelvet bridge coat. The bridegroom’s mother wore a black silk model frock

with gold trimmings, and a bridge coat matching the one worn by the mothei of the bride. Aided by the efforts of the Izett “Futurist Band,” the supper and dancefloor arrangements at the Mokoia Hall for the entertainment of the many couples left nothing to be desired, mid • night, and the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” bringing one the happiest of nuptial occasions to its happy close. It might be mentioned that the pre • sence of the bridegroom’s grandmother, Mrs Charles Wilton, of Masterton, who attains her 84th birthday on Friday, was the subject of much joy to those elder people present, who were thus better able to recall similar happy occasions in the early careers of many of the younger generation in attendance whose now aged, if living, pn re^ s came out to New Zealand with the very first of the original “Mayflower Fleet” of emigrant vessels coming to anchor in Port Nicholson in 1840; although she, herself (as a babym-arms almost) came out in the “Westminster a few years later on. Mr and Mrs Harris later left for an extensive motor tour of the north, the bride's going-away costume being a bottle-green frock with gold trimmings, navy fur-trimmed coat and accessories. THOMPSON—THORN. A quiet and pretty wedding ' took place in the Church of Epiphany, Masterton, on Saturday afternoon when Emily Bertha, only daughter of Mr and Mrs A. J. Thorn, of Short Street, Masterton, was married to Wilfred Scott Thompson, of Waitotara. The Rev E. J. Rich performed the ceremony. . , The bride, who was escorted by her father, looked charming in a teal blue ensemble with tan accessories. She was attended by Mrs L. Saywell, of Martin, as matron-of-honour. The best man was Mr Len Thorn, brother of the bride. The reception was held at Styles s Tearooms, where Mrs Thorn, wearing a wine-coloured dress and hat to tone, with a shoulder spray of freezias, received her guests, who came from all parts of the North Island. The usual toasts were honoured. The bride was the recipient of many useful and beautiful gifts. The honeymoon will be spent on. a tour of the North Island. Mr and Mrs W. S. Thompson will reside at Waitotara.