WEDDINGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1943, Page 4

WEDDINGS

BENNER—HEFFER A becoming gown of magnolia satin was chosen by Pamela June, only daughter of Mr and Mrs E. J. Heffer, “Highmore,” Lansdowne, for her marriage at St Matthew’s Church, Masterton* on Saturday afternoon to Lieutenant Richard Steuart Benner, only son of Mr and Mrs H. S. Benner, Kerikeri, Bay of Islands. The church was decorated with spring flowers. The Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich officiated and Mr H. Miller Hope played the organ. Messrs John Maunsell (Masterton) and Roger Graham (Lower Hutt) were ushers. The bride was escorted by her father and her gown was cut on softly flowing classical lines. The train featured a deep band of quilting around the hem. Her tulle veil (kindly lent by a friend) was caught up by a coronet of real orange blossom and she carried a bouquet of freezias, hyacinths and maidenhair fern. Miss Patricia Welch, of Lower Hutt, was bridesmaid. She was attired in a gown of dusk pink and her headdress was composed of real flowers. Her bouquet was of toning Christmas roses, hyacinths and maidenhair fern. Lieutenant Noel Brady, who is on furlough from the Middle East, was best man. The reception was held at “Highmore,” where Mrs and Mrs Heffer and Mr and Mrs Benner received the guests. Mrs Heffer wore a gown of cocoabrown georgette and carried a posy of autumn tints, and Mrs Benner wore black and white and carried a toning posy. When Lieutenant and Mrs Benner left by car for the North the bride travelled in a mustard coloured dress with coat to match and brown accessories. Their future home will be at Kerikeri. GARNER—WILKINSON A very pretty wedding took place at St Matthew’s Church, Masterton, recently when Margaret Isobel (Peggy), youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs P. Wilkinson, of' Fleet Street, Masterton, was married to Thomas Archibald , Gray, only son of Mr and Mrs A. Garner, of Richmond Street, Petone. The ceremony was performed by the Ven Archdeacon Rich. Mr Miller Hope was the organist. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attired in a gown of..white and silver embossed satin, cut on classical lines, with full skirt and sweeping train, heart-shaped neck and tulle veil, held in a topknot of white roses. The veil was lent by Mrs A. C. Duncan, sister of the bride. She also wore a string of pearls lent by the bridegroom’s grandmother and carried a sheaf of lilies, hyacinths, freezias and lily of the valley. The bride, who is a member of the W.A.A.C., was attended by six bridesmaids, who were each dressed in frocks of cyclamen, with velvet tops and net skirts over taffeta, worked with velvet leaves over them, and carried sheafs of lilies, cyclamen tonings and silver leaves. They also wore topknots of cyclamen flowers on their hair, silver shoes and silver necklaces, the gift of the bridegroom. The two little flower girls, nieces of the bride, wore dresses of green tulle over taffeta, with velvet flowers worked over dresses and wore tulle bows on their hair and carried posies of clover, primroses and silver leaves. They wore silver shoes. They each presented the bride with silver horseshoes as she was leaving the church. The bridegroom was attended by Mr A. McWhirter as best man and five groomsmen. A reception was held in the Orange Hall, Bannister Street, where the guests were received by the mothers of the bride and bridegroom. The bride’s mother was dressed in a powdered blue ensemble, with hat and shoes to tone and wore a shoulder spray of cyclamen carnations with scarlet tonings. The bridegroom’s mother was dressed in black and pink, With hat and shoes to match and wore a shoulder spray of pirrk carnations and cyclamen tonings. After the usual toasts had been honoured Mr and Mrs Garner left for Christchurch, where the honeymoon will be spent. The bride travelled in a black and white chequered costume with accessories to tone. The bridegroom’s grandmother, who is nearly 80 years of age, was present at the wedding and also at the reception. She travelled from Petone. She is the oldest living person born in Petone and has resided there all her life.