Times Colonist, 13 March 1954

Mr and Mrs T Irvine Cormack to live near Hamburg, Germany

Mr and Mrs Thomas Irvine Cormack, married this afternoon in St Mary’s Church, will soon travel to Germany to make their home near Hamburg where the groom will be stationed with the 2^nd Bn, PP CLI.  The couple will travel on honeymoon to Calgary, where the groom is now stationed.  He will leave for Germany at the end of March, when Mrs Cormack will return to Victoria, leaving in several month’s time to join him.

Baskets of plum blossoms, white stocks and deep pink tulips decorated the church for the ceremony.  Archdeacon AE Del Nunns heard the vows of Shirley Mary, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Oliver W Pauline, 936 Foul Bay Road, and the son of the late Alan Cormack, well-known shipbuilder, and the late Mrs Cormack.

The bride is granddaughter of the late Hon James A Macdonald, former chief justice of British Columbia, and Mrs Macdonald, and of the Hon FA Pauline, former agent-general for BC and the late Mrs Pauline.

James Gerry played traditional wedding music.

An afternoon length gown of amethyst iridescent taffeta was worn by the attractive, chesnut-haired bride. The gown was styled with full, crinolined skirt, fitted bodice trimmed with matching sequins, and boat-shaped neckline.  She wore a tiny shell hat of iridescent dusky rose straw with shoulder-length veil, satin slippers and gloves to match, and carried a cascading bouquet of rosebuds shading from rose to mauve tones.

Her sister’s only attendant, Miss Carolyn Pauline wore an afternoon-length gown of pale pink corded sikl, with v-neckline, fitted bodice, bracelet length sleeves and full flared skirt. She wore a navy stray hat, navy accessories and carried a bouquet en tone.

Ronald Alexander was best man.  Peter Powell and Murray Pauline, Vancouver, ushered guests to pews marked with nosegays of cream daffodils.

Reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents, where a three-tier wedding cake centred the bridal table, which was covered with a madeira cloth.  Tiny Dresden vases arranged with white stocks and carnations and tall white candles in silver holders flanked the cake. Plum blossoms, iris, pink tulips and white stocks decorated the rooms.  Dr Fraser Murray, Vancouver, proposed the toast.

The mother of the bride wore a flared afternoon dress of pink lilac bengaline, navy accessories and spray corsage.

Mrs Cormack donned an azure blue dressmaker suit and apricot wool topcoat for travelling on honeymoon.  She wore a navy pillbox hat trimmed with white pique, white blouse and navy shoes and handbag.