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From: Bob GILLIVER <>
Subject: [LANCSGEN-L] WEDDING BREAKFASTS
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 01:39:13 -0700 (PDT)


Hi all,

I read this fascinating extract in a book recently, and am still
wondering "why was it so" that weddings should have been in the
mornings? Can anyone enlighten me.

"Weddings were required by law to be morning affairs until the late
1880s, when permissible laws were extended to 3pm. This is why
marriages were customarily celebrated with a wedding breakfast. The
wedding ceremony itself invariably saw both the clergyman and the
parish clerk in attendance. When it was over the couple had to sign
their names - the bride her maiden name - in the parish register in
the vestry. Then they went out for the traditional wedding breakfast.
It was the custom to throw shoes after the departing couple"

Bob GILLIVER
(Singapore)


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