WEDDING OF MR G M SLADDEN AND MISS FORD
The wedding of Mr George M Sladden, third son of Mr Julius Sladden of Seward House, Badsey, and Miss M Marjorie Ford, elder daughter of the Rev E R Ford, Rector of Brondesbury, and Mrs Ford, took place on Wednesday, in brilliant sunshine, at Christ Church, Brondesbury. The ceremony was performed by the Venerable the Archdeacon of London, assisted by the Rev B W Taylor, and was fully choral.
The bride, who was given away by her father, looked beautiful. She wore a simple white gown of draped satin bouclé, with georgette wing sleeves, and her tuile veil was kept in place by a silver circlet with sprays of orange blossom. She carried a sheaf of lilies, given by the bridegroom. She was attended by three bridesmaids: her sister, Miss Cicely Ford, Miss Juliet Sladden, youngest sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Dorothy Sladden, niece of the bridegroom. The grown-up bridesmaids wore dresses of daffodil coloured satin bouclé with draped panels and sleeves of pale yellow georgette, and nigger brown lace hats; strings of red cornelians, and they carried bouquets of red wallflowers with maidenhair fern, the bridegroom’s gifts. The little bridesmaids wore a white frock of crepe de chine, embroidered in yellow with a cap of Liberty net. Her bouquet was a posy of primroses and she wore a string of pearls, the bridegroom’s present. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr J D Sladden, as best man. There was a large congregation in the church which looked very festive as it was still decorated with Easter flowers.
After the ceremony there was a reception at the Rectory for a large gathering of relatives from both families. The wedding presents were on view, a great number of most delightful and useful gifts, far too many to mention all, but among them were the following: bride to bridegroom, gold cuff links and gold signet ring; bridegroom to bride, single diamond ring set in platinum; parents of the bride, household linen and a pearl necklet; bridegroom’s father, table silver and silver hair brush and hand mirror; parishioners of Brondesbury to the bride, mahogany bureau; colleagues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners’ Office to the bridegroom, mahogany-cased French clock.
The bride’s travelling dress was a very becoming one of fawn gabardine, embroidered in god and red, and she wore a fawn velour coat trimmed with beaver fur and brown hat. The obviously happy pair left at 4 o’clock by motor for Devon and Cornwall where the honeymoon is to be spent.