WEDDING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 2

WEDDING

TRICE—KIRKNESS St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Wanganui, was the scene of a pretty wedding on January 28, when Eileen Narissa, only daughter of M,r. and Mrs. A. J. Kirkness, Wanganui, was married to Cyril Benjamin, second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Price, Wanganui. The church had been beautifully decorated with lavender and pale pink sweet peas, gladioli and hydrangeas, making an attractive selling for the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. A.

Brash. Miss K. Fowler played the | wedding music. | The bride, who was given away by I her father, wore a charming frock of magnolia bridal satin, cut on princess pines and with appliqued satin flowers [adorning the train. The billowy cut tulle veil, worn off the forehead, was arranged to the head with a coronet ■of silver and orange blossom. The spray of orange blossom worn by the bride on her frock had been worn by her mother on her wedding day. The bride carried a sheaf of creamy white waterlilies, gladioli, carnations and maidenhair fern.

Attending the bride were her cousin, Miss Nola Butters, and Miss Elsie Stokes, as bridesmaid, and little Barbara Baker, of Hamilton, as flower girl. They were dressed alike in dainty frocks of pastel pink rippled ninon finished with lavender sashes. The two bridesmaids wore real flower sprays in ,their hair and carried arm sheafs of lavender and pale pink gladioli and waterlilies. The flower girl’s headdress was a May-day coronet of tiny pink and lavender flowers, and she carried a little American flower basket of sweet peas in matching shades.

Mr. Harry Whiting, of Wellington, was best man, the duties of groomsman being carried out by the bride’s brother, Mr. Max Kirkness. When leaving the church the bride was presented with a silver horseshoe by wee Ngaire Bryan, of Hamilton. At the reception, which was held at the "Rendezvous,” the guests were received by the bride's parents. Mrs. Kirkness wore a smart ensemble of navy matalaine, with navy Bangkok straw hat, and a shoulder spray of pink carnations. Mrs. H. Whiting, sister of the bridegroom, was attired in a smart tailored costume, tine straw hat and wore a shoulder spray of flame carnations. When the bride and bridegroom left for a tour of the South Island, the bride wore a honey gold bolero frock, with brown hat and accessories.