Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 04 January 1941

At Mexborough Parish Church, the wedding took place of Miss Katherine Eleanor Booker, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Booker, 55, Adwick Road, Mexborough, and Corporal James Robert Christieson, Scots Guards only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Christieson, of 15, Wharfe Street, Montrose, Scotland. The Rev. E. H. P. Rawlins officiated. The service was choral, the hymns, Lead us, Heavenly Father” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” being sung. The organist was Miss Ena Sanderson. F.V.C.M., L.V.C.M., GM.B.C.M., A.V.C.M.

The bride was attired in a gown of white lace and net, trimmed with white satin ribbon, cut on Elizabethan lines, and terminating in a short train. She wore a veil and white satin coronet and a cameo brooch over 150 years old, loaned by Mrs. Andrews of Low Farm, Barnburgh. The bride carried a sheaf of cream roses and white heather, to which was, attached a silver horseshoe, given to her by Mrs. J. Sharp, of Conisborough. The bridesmaids, Miss Hilda Redman and Miss Margaret V. Mawson, wore gowns of mauve lace and net respectively, trimmed with ribbon, and head-dresses of bronze chrysanthemums on silver ribbon. They carried posies of bronze chrysanthemums.

The bride was given away by her father, and the best man was A/c Reginald Booker, brother of the bride. A/c John Andrews, of Barnburgh, was groomsman. The bridegroom gave Miss Redman a powder compact and Miss Mawson a crystal powder bowl. The bride’s mother wore a gown of black georgette and lace and black fur-trimmed coat and black accessories, and the bridegroom’s mother an ensemble in black American georgette with black accessories and spray of carnations.