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Murray · Weddings

Weddings, 1881

4 stories in Murray's papers

The Ladies’ Column. Wedding Days

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 19

The wedding day may be the most eventful day in a woman’s life, but it is not the happiest, though it is conventionally called BO. Nor is it the man’s. Both the chief parties to a wedding…

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The Wedding Ring

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 February 1881 · page 20

The wedding-ring has been used from a very early date as a seal which stamps the bond or covenant entered into between man and wife. In addition to this it is a symbol:…

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A Maori Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 May 1881 · page 15

The Canterbury Press says :—" A marriage in high life among the natives took place at St Stephen's Church, Kaiapoi, recently, the ceremony being performed by Rev. D. O. Hampden, assisted…

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A Wedding Episode

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 October 1881 · page 15

They had a terrible lime at a wedding up at Petaluma the other day, and which only goes to show how the smallest drawback will sometimes take the stiffening out of the swellest occasion…

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