Fourment, the charming niece of M. and Mme. de Rossi, to Mr. Alphonse Van Cutsem, Consul for Belgium at Hankow, was solemnized in Shanghai, on Wednesday afternoon, at St. Joseph's Church. This wedding is of great interest to the social world as it forms a union between the French and Belgian society of Shanghai and Hankow.
The civil ceremony was performed at the Belgian Consulate by Mr. J. Van Haute, the Consul-General, on the previous day, On the eve of the wedding a dinner to all the intimate friends of the young couple was held at the Italian Consulate.
As the bride was about to set b; out for the church, she was surprised by four little maids: Andrée Grosbois, Jeannette Barraud, Jacquiline Charlot and Annie Muguet, who carried between them an immense basket of choice flowers, a token of esteem from the ladies of the French society in Shanghai.
The church was tastefully decorated for the occasiomaby the Lewis Nurseries, the altar being a veritable bower of white flowers prettily arranged. Consul Dufaure de la Prade, Mr. G. W. Boissevain, Vice-Consul for Holland, and Mr. Jean Bureau acted as ushers, and a detachment of Anamites formed a Guard of Honour at the entrance to the Church, by kind permission of Mr. H. Wilden, Consul-General for France.
To the strains of Lohengrin's Wedding March, the procession entered the church. The bride, given away by her uncle Comm.
de Rossi, Consul-General for Ttaly, was delightfully attired in a beautiful gown of silver cloth draped with net lace, with a deep girdle of silver ribbon, from which hung panels of cream panne velvet. Her veil of fine white tulle, which fell in graceful folds to form the train, was prettily caught up by a wreath of orange blossom.
The bridesmaids, Misses Laura Chien, Marie Christiane de la Prade, Yvonne Herensperger and Jacqueline de la Prade. daintily gowned in shell pink crepe de chine and crowned with wreaths of tiny pink rosebuds, followed, accompani_
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