A Fashionable Wedding in Melbourne. Marriage of Mr Rupert Clarke
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 3
An exceedingly large gathering, including the most wealthy and aristocratic Victorian colonists, assembled on Wednesday afternoon at the Scots Church, Collins-street, Melbourne, to witness…
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The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 24
A marriage was celebrated on Easter Monday at Yackandandah, in the Presbyterian Church (Rev. Mr. Swan being the officiating clergyman), between Mr. Joseph Frederick Austin, of…
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The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 10
A wedding took place recently on the Northern Pacific Railway in Idaho Territory. A widow from Minneapolis travelled westward by Pullman car, and at a place…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wit and Humor. Putting on the Wedding Garments
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 11
About four, miles out of Tuscaloosa, in returning from a Sunday visit to a plantation, we stopped at a negro church in which about 100 were assembled for divine service. The…
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The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1887 · page 7
The Chinese Times gives the following version of the origin of the custom of throwing rice at weddings:— “In the days of the Shang dynasty, some 1,500…
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The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 November 1887 · page 3
THERE was a sound of revelry at the Chinese Camp, Wahgunyah; on Sunday. Jimmy Ah Kew, one of the leading storekeepers of Blanch street, celebrated his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Beautiful Wedding Dress
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1887 · page 13
A really unique as well as most beautiful wedding dress was worn by Miss Drake on July 2, when she was married at St. Margaret’s Westminster. Nobody (says a writer in the…
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