WEDDING BELLS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 9, 11 March 1925, Page 15

WEDDING BELLS

CLARKE—EGAN. A very popular wedding was solemnised at the Catholic church, Gore, on February 3, the contracting parties being Miss Agnes (Reece) Egan, fifth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Egan, Trafford Street, Gore, and Mr. Samuel Clarke, of Bluff, and formerly of Gore, eldest son of Mr. and Airs. S. Clarke, Gladstone, Invercargill. Rev. Father Graham officiated. The church was tastefully decorated by girl friends of the bride with hydrangias and gaillardias. The bride, who was led to the altar by her father, looked charming in a gown of creme figured broche-de-Chine, simply made and finished with a spray of orange blossom at the waist. She wore a train daintily lined with heliotrope, and her veil of creme tulle, beautifully embroidered, was caught with pearls and orange blossom. Her bouquet was of white roses, sweet peas and maiden-hair fern, with touches of heliotrope scabias. The bridesmaids were Miss Hilda Egan (sister of the bride) and Miss Doris Hoffman (niece). Miss Egan wore a handsome frock of heliotrope marocain brocaded in silver, relieved with trimmings of shrimp-colored ribbon. Her veil was of heliotrope tulle with a coronet of silver leaves, and she wore silver shoes and stockings to match. Miss Doris Hoffman was daintily attired in a frock of creme lace and white shoes and stockings, and a wreath of silver leaves finished with streamers of heliotrope encircled her head. Both bridesmaids carried bouquets nf heliotrope, sweet peas, scabias, and gyprophila. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr. E. Clarke, asybest - During the ceremony Mrs. edf'at; the . organ and played the “Wedding March 3 ’ as, the Ejbdal y party left the church. An ‘adjournment was then made to Hoffman’s tea rooms, when a sumptuous wedding breakfast was partaken of, and the customary toasts honored. After the wedding breakfast the guests proceeded to the home of Mr, and Mrs. Egan, where they were hospitably entertained. The bridegroom’s present to the bride was a seal coat, to the bridesmaids a gold “Nellie Stewart” bangle and an ebony brush and comb respectively, and the bride’s present to the bridegroom was a silver-mounted walking stick. The newly-wedded couple left by the afternoon’s express en route to the North Island, where the honeymoon was spent, the bride travelling in a navy three-piece costume piped with white, and a navy and white hat to match. During the afternoon a number ' of congratulatory telegrams were received from absent friends. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke