The Archive · 1905

The Wedding of the Season

The young Marquis of Bute was married in Ireland yescerdsy, to the aughter of Sir Henry Bellingham. The marriage of course took place in a Roman Catholic Church, with all the magnificence to which the ritual of that Church lends itself, and national costumes of Scotland and Ireland xxendered the ceremony exceedingly picturesque, the bridegroom and best man being in Highland garb and the bridesmaids appearing as " idealized Irish peasant girls," while there were Highland pipers to escort the bride and bridegroom to the special steamer on which they went to scotland for the honeymoon. Lord Bute is one of the wealth-jest of our peers, and in addition to four country seats in Scotland and one in Wales, he has a-town residence with perhaps the most oxtonsiyo grounds of any, private house in London, with the oxcopright in the middle of Rogent's Park. 14th July,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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