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FANTASTIC! WEDDING PHOTOS,
FINERY AND FLOWERS
Photo courtesy Tony Haddow
St James the Great, Hanslope was host to an Choir with Alex Allcock Rouse, their organist
Photo above shows Mark Lancaster, MP; Mary Nokes, Co-ordinator, wearing traditional Ghanaian dress; Dr John Sorrell wearing his ʻFather of the Bridegroom clothesʼ; Bart Gamber, director Milton Keynes Community Foundation. Behind, the traditional Korean clothes worn by Dr Sorrell's wife Madeline, their son David and daughter in law, Alice.
extraordinary array of sights, colours, scents and choirmaster; the St Mary & St Giles
and sounds over the weekend.
Church Band, Stony Stratford; Derrian Le Brun Powell, soprano; and Richard Heyes, organist at St Peter & St Paul, Newport Pagnell. The refreshment marquee was decorated as for a wedding reception and a group of ladies served Cream Teas and lunches with food prepared by Are You Being Served of Northampton.
Nearly 400 photos of villagersʼ weddings dating back to 1897 were exhibited, led by Mary Nokes and a team of willing stickers. Audrey Geary led a band of helpers who set up and displayed the many beautiful wedding clothes and memorabilia. The flower arrangers, led by Susan Cordery brought to life many of the wedding bouquets in the photos and arrangements that filled every spare corner of the church.
The five hundred visitors included children from St Mary & St Giles C of E School; Bart Gamber of the Milton Keynes Community Foundation, who had provided a generous
Music was provided by St James Church grant for the project; and Mark Lancaster MP.
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