WEDDING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 29 July 1937, Page 13

WEDDING.

BEST—KEAN. The Church of St. Clement Danes,_ London, was the scene of a wedding of interest to Palmerston North, __ recently, when Miss Mary Dorothy Kean was married to Mr John Roff Finlay Best. The bride is the elder daughter of Air and Mrs George Kean, of Hyde Park Terrace, London, and granddaughter of the late Mr C. E. Wajdegrave, of Palmerston North, the bridegroom being a former Cambridge stroke and more recently coach to Cambridge oarsmen. The rector of St. Clement Danes, Rev. William Penington Bickford, officiated, and the service was fuliy choral. The church was filled with friends, the guests being so numerous that they overflowed into the gallery. The interior of the church was decorated with white flowers, which lined botli sides of the aisle to the chancel steps, and near the altar were grouped with delightful effect. The famous bells of the church range a merry peal while the congregation assembled, and the bridal march from “Lohengrin” was played as the bridal procession proceeded to the chancel steps. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of white slipper satin with a long train cut in one with the skirt, over which fell her net veil suspended from a head-dress of stephanotis, the same fragrant white flowers of which composed her bouquet. The bride’s jewellery consisted of a diapiond broach and diamond earrings, the gifts of the bridegroom. The bride’s attendant maids were Miss Patricia Kean (her sister), Miss Margaret Powell (her cousin), Miss Beatrice Best (sister of the brill gromo), Miss Helene Kayser, Miss Bettv Halvert and Miss Joan Bibhy (friends) all of whom wore coat dresses of blue organza, with chaplets of love in the mist and forget-me-nots, and they carried bouquets of mixed flowers. The best man was Dir John Newman Hall, and Messrs J. Comber, Clive Lewis, Antony C’oombe and Martin Bristowe were the groomsmen. The service began with the hymn “Lead Us, Heavenly Father,” followed bv a psalm and the hymn, “O Perfact Love.” After the address and blessing “The Sevenfold Amen” was given, and the service concluded with Dr Watford Davies’s hymn “God Bo In My Head and In My Understanding.” While the register was being signed the congregation joined in the singing of “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,” and the newly married couple left the church to the strains of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” at which time the church bells played another congratulatory peal. After the reception at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr and Mrs Best left for the Continent, where their honeymoon was spent on a motoring tour.