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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Weddings

Weddings, 1899

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Wedding Superstitions

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 1

The bride who finds a spider on her wedding dress may consider herself blessed. The bride who dreams of fairies the night before her marriage will be thrice blessed…

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Captain's Flat. Wedding Bells

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

Another very pretty wedding was celebrated by Rev J Scott at the Church of England on Monday last when Miss Einily Hutton and Mr W Donelly were united in the holy…

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Captain's Flat. Wedding

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 2

Our epedimic of weddings still continues as on Monday morning last at 7 o'clock s'till another one took place, and it speaks volumes for the courage of the young people to enter…

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A Dog Wedding

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 1

To all the extremes to which the regard for dogs has been carried by woman, [?] has exceeded that highest [?]ourdity which was recently perpetrated in Paris by a member of one…

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Wedding Bells

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 2

FROM the Canowindra correspondent of the Cowra Free Press we learn that a very pretty wedding was solemnised on the 13th instant in St. Edward's Church when Mr…

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Wedding Bells. Two Old Braidwood Families United

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 2

The dawn of Wednesday was waited with more, than usual interest, for was not such an important event as the marriage of Miss Maritana Larmer and Mr. A. G…

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Raiment. Wedding Fashions

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 October 1899 · page 2

It is not customary for the bride to pay for the bridesmaids' dresses. If, however, she asks a relative or intimate friend to act as bridesmaid, who is unable…

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How People Buy Wedding Rings

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 October 1899 · page 1

"I am often asked," says a well-known Leads jeweller, "how people conduct themselves when purchasing the wedding ring. This request is generally put to me by young persons…

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A Turkish Wedding

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 17 November 1899 · page 3

“The bride’s belongings were just arriving on three camels, preceded by a band of music and surrounded by an admiring crowd. Immediately, afterwards the bride herself, also…

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Willing that Hare Postponed Weddings

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 2

Human caprice is often both amusing and distressing, and its relation to matrimony is probably answerable for more than half the comedy and tragedy in…

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