COUNTESS OF SE AFIELD

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17985, 2 April 1930, Page 8

COUNTESS OF SE AFIELD

RECCEPTION IN MORAYSHIRE. It is stated that on the return of the Countess of Sealieid and her husband, Mr. Derek Studley-Herbert, to London from the Continent, where they are spending their honeymoon, they will give a wedding reception to the whole of Lady Seafleld's tenantry on her estates 'in Morayshire and Banffshire. The celebrations will probably continue for two weeks, with bonfires and feasts and speeches by the bridal pair.

In the Daily Telegraph one reads: A beautiful wedding gown ordered lately for a society bride was destined Lo be superseded at the lust moment hv a Iravelling gown. its owner, young Lady Sealieid, unexpectedly decided to have a quiet, secret ceremony instead of a fashionable one, and the rich ivory satin folds would have been too conspicuous, as publicity was not desired.

But the wedding gown is not to be handed down unworn. When the bride and her husband, Mr. Sludley-ilerbert, return from the Continent, where they are spending their honeymoon, they intend to give a wedding reception to the tenantry up in Morayshire. Lady Seafield will then wear bridal finery for tiie satisfaction of the cottagers and farmers in the Grant country, who arc devoted to her.

Tbis»beautiful Scottish bride is often reputed to hear a strong resemblance to Queen Victoria as a girl, except for her hair, which is red-gold. So it is not surprising that she chose a distinctly Victorian style for her wedding gown, and that the satin of which It is made is of the rich-looking variety with a gorgeous sheen. At the tenants’ celebration she will stand with her husband to receive congratulations—as she would have done had she carried out her original intention of being married in Scotland —and will afterwards cut her wedding cake to the strains of bagpipe music.