Wedding Bells

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 5, 4 February 1925, Page 39

Wedding Bells

WILLIAMS— A very pretty wedding was solemnised at St: Patrick’s Church, Greymouth, on December Ist, the contracting parties being Henry, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, of Weheka, and Bridie, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney, of Okarito. Rev. Father Riordan officiated and celebrated Nuptial Mass, "he bride, who entered the church on the arm of her brother (Mr. Patrick Sweeney), looked charming in a beautiful frock of figured satin caught up at the waist with a bunch of orange blossoms. Her handsomely-worked veil was held in place with a coronet of orange blossoms. She also carried a beautiful showier bouquet of .white flowers. The bride was attended by Miss Fanny O’Don 11 ell, as bridesmaid, who wore apricot figured silk with hat to match and carried a bouquet of pink flowers. Mr. Lawrence Williams, (brother of the bridegroom) was best man. After the ceremony the bridal party adjourned to Harkor’s Tea Rooms where wedding breakfast was partaken of and the usual toasts honored. The bridegroom’s present to the bride was a handsome skunk stole, and to the bridesmaid a moonstone necklet. The bride’s present to the bride groom was a shaving outfit. The newlywedded couple left by the express for Christchurch en route to the North Island where the honeymoon was spent; the bride travelling in a grey marocain relieved with brown and hat to match, •