WEDDING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10306, 15 January 1927, Page 2

WEDDING

< r CONNE LL—MORE IS. At Holy Trinity Church on Wednesday, January 5, a pretty wedding was solemnised by the Rev. R. Hodgson, the contracting parties being Tui, daughter of Mrs. and tile late Mr. William Morris, Clifford Street, Gisborne, and Mr. j-J. H. O'Connell, of Te Karaite. The church was tastefully decorated by the bride’s fellow nurses of the Cook Hospital, an effective wedding boll being suspended from an arch of flowers. Mr. F. N. Sidebottom presided at the organ, tho service being a choral one.

The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her step-brother, Mr. Richard Morris, of Dunedin,. looked charming in a dress of white silk erepe-de-chine, and silver tissue, and she carried a beautiful bouquet of white ruses and maiden-hair fern. Her veil was mounted on a coronet of silver and orange blossoms. The bride was attended by three bridesmaids, the chief bridesmaid being her youngest sister, who wore a pretty shade of champagne erepe-de-chine. The other bridesmaids, Miss Armstrong and .Miss Edwards, chose blue georgette and cyclamen respectively, and all three tarried bouquets. The bride’s mother wore black civpe-dc-oliine, handsomely braided, and a black hat, ami the bridegroom’s mother black silk maroeain, with blacit bat. Mrs. Richard Morris chose silk Paisley maroeain and white hat. After the ceremony the guests, numbering over iO, were entertained nt wedding breakfast, at which there were tho usual toasts and speeches. Later the happy couple left by car for Au okl a nd, where their honeymoon will be spent. The bride’s travelling dress was of floral green erepe-de-chine, with hat to match, and black silk coat. In the evening Mrs.. Morris tendered a function to the guests and flic younger people spent an enjoyable time dancing and singing. The bride and bridegroom were the recipients of many useful and beautiful presents; the bride’s present from the groom was a tortoise-shell toilet set, and the bridegroom's present was a set of handsome ivorjback hair brushes.