WEDDING BELLS

New Zealand Tablet, 22 November 1906, Page 17

WEDDING BELLS

■' . , , FITZGERALD^BROO'Kfe.i . :- ? -- Considerable interest (wfites" ''Rotorua correspondent), -was 'evidenced in the marriage of -Mr. J. T. Fitzgerald;* of Rotoru'a, to Miss. Margaret Brooks, , of , Ahaura-,-. Greymouth, .on- ".Wednesday -morning* 'November - . 7, tha- bridegroom being a resident- "of ~23; years,' and eldest son of Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald - of " the - Government. Works, Rotorua, the biide • being the youngest daughter of the late Mr. T v A. D. Brooks /of Aliaur a . A number of friends and well-wishers of *the, v liappy couple congregated at' St.'- jMich'a'el-'s .Church', -where the ceremony, took, place. Rev.-, Father- -^Kreymborg officiated, and celebrated the Nuptial Mass. The sanctuary was prettily decorated for the occasion by friends of , the bride and bridegroom. The bride looked very pretty in a cream embroidered voile dress,, the'- skirt being slightly trained, and •tiimmed - with" gathered' ribbon. .She wore a white hat with plumes. The bride . was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Josephine Fitzgerald (sister; of the bridegroom)', and Miss White, of Waimauku. Both were atlirccL ,-in cream silk frocks, „ trimmed with lace. Mr. <rlf. Fitzgerald., brother: >'of< the -bridegroom, acted- as -best man. After * the .. ceremony . the happy couple- left .the church to the"' strains' of Mendelssohn's ' Wedding March,' and then drove to the .residence of the bride's ' sister, v>here the wedding breakfast was laid, and (luring which the usual . toasts were honored- T.he presents- were -.useful -and. ornamental, - and their number and value bore "'testi- "~ mony to. the esteem,. in which the' young couple are lield.