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Weddings, 1878

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An English Wedding Notice

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 291

If the British wedding were as formidable as its advertisement usually is, few persons would have the temerity to be parties thereto. To us Americans & marriage notice in the British journals is the cause of mingled wonder and…

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Fashionable Wedding in London

Evening News · Wednesday 4 September 1878 · page 5

New York, July 28.—A London dispatch, dated Saturday, says: London society was stirred today by an interesting event which has long been looked forward to—namely, the nuptials of…

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LITERATURE Wedding Talk

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1878 · page 728

The topic of this paper is suggested by the pictorial supplement which accompanies this week's Sydney Mail. The wedding of a "full private" in a Highland regiment is evidently the occasion of much…

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Concerning Wedding Ceremonies

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1878 · page 810

How many people them are who in fine clothes and with smiling faces "assist" at a modern wedding, yet in their heart of hearts think the profuse outlay and the general festive arrangements usual on the occasion a piece of…

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