WEDDING BELLS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 15 October 1903, Page 15

WEDDING BELLS

KENNEDY— HAUGHEY

A wedding which created a gfeat deal of interest in the Taranaki district (writes a correspondent) was solemnised at St. Joseph's Church, Hawera, on October 1, the happy couple being Mr. J. T. Kennedy, eldest son of Mr. Kennedy, J.P., of Waverley, and Miss Ha-ughey, only daughter of Mr. A. Haughey, J.P., of Hawera. As Miss Hau&hey had been president of the Children of Mary, and haid been since her school (lays a leader in e»very parochial work, the ladies of the parish left nothing undone to make the day of her nwriage a red-letter day In Hawera, so that when the happy day arrived the church presented a moat beautiful aippearance. A rich carpet was spread from the roadway to the por,ch, which latter was embowered with palms. The interior was rioh with ferns, and the sanctuary festooned with clematis blossom. The Very Key. Fatiher Power was celebrant, with the Rev. Father McKenna, of Pahiatua, and Father McGratih, of Patea, assisting. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked very nice in a dress of cream figured silk, trimmed with silk chiffon, anjd orange blossoms, and the usual wreath and veil. She was attended by the Misses M. ami N, Nennedy, sisters of the bridegroom, the former in white tucked silk, with poke bonnet trimmed with blue, and the latter in tucked silk with poke bonnet trimmed with pink. The groomsmen were Messrs. M. Kennedy and M. Hearn, brother and cousin respectively of the bridegroom. The ceremony was followed by a Nuptial Mass, the choir, under Mr. Higham's conductorship, rendering appropriate m,Usic. A wedding breakfast was given in the Theatre Royal, some 150 guests from all parts of the district attending. The hall was handsomely decorated. On the stage the numerous and costly presents, numbering 170, were arranged, which included many valuable cheques. The bridegroom Is present to the bride was a gold watch and chain, and to the bridesmaids a gold heart pendant studded with pearls and a diamond dagger. A copy of ' Lady Butler's Letters ' was presented by the Children of Mary to the bride. At the breakfast the principal toast was proposed by the Very Rev. Father Power, who paid a well-deserved compliment to the happy couple, whose worth was so well known to all at that festive board. Other toasts were proposed by Rev. Father McKenna, Rev. Father McGrath, who spoke in the Celtic tongue in praise of the bridegroom's parents, and Messrs. Morton and A. J. Whittaker, the latter, as a long-standing member of the church .committee, referred to the many services rendered the Cn,urch by the bride. The happy couple left by train in the afternoon for Auckland and Rotorua,, where the honeymoon is to be spent.