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Sydney · Weddings

Weddings, 1887

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Wedding Fashions

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 May 1887 · page 34

Both from Europe and America comes the news of fresh innovations in established wedding customs the following being the most important: Invitations are engraved upon one sheet of paper: the separate…

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Fashionable Wedding Hours

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 34

The fashionable hour in London for weddings is now 2 o'clock. This, of course, rings the knell of that most mournful and trying of hospitable functions, the…

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Miss Riley's Wedding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 1186

To the feminine mind there is an ever fresh charm in the excitement attendant on a wedding. In connection with the marriage of Miss Riley there was all the interest which the marriage of a member of a…

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A Fashionable Wedding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 34

The recent wedding of Lady Florence Convngham with Mr. Bertram Astlev, on Saturday, in London, was a very pretty one. The bride looked very young when her heavy veil of almost priceless lace was…

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A Wedding Novelty

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 34

At a recent wedding a tin box was provided, in which were placed a sheet of paper containing the autographs of all present, a list of the gifts received, photographs of bride and groom, a piece of the…

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Fashionable Wedding

Evening News · Thursday 18 August 1887 · page 6

Considerable stir was caused in the vicinity of St. Thomas's Church, North Shore, on Wednesday, the occasion being the marriage of Mr. Hugh H. Massie, the famous cricketer, and Miss…

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A Beautiful Wedding Dress

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1887 · page 505

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 World) can hope to imitate it, for it was entirely draped…

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New Wedding Dresses

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 October 1887 · page 34

Among the wedding costumes lately made in London by the leading fashionable dressmakers was one of rich, thick, white satin, with a very handsome pearl panel let in at the side, tasselled over with…

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Wedding Bells

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 November 1887 · page 15

THE marriage of Miss Ellen Theresa Conlon, daughter of Alderman M. J. Conlon (Glebe), with Mr. Frederick W. Priestly, son of Mr. Henry Priestly (of Leichhardt, formerly of the Glebe)…

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"Humming Bee's" Question Box. Wedding Present

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 November 1887 · page 10

"Puzzled."--A wedding present not to cost more than £1 does not necessarily limit you. You could buy many pretty things for the house with the sum of 20s. A small cloth, a pair of vases, a butter-dish in…

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A Fashionable Wedding

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 2

On the 13th inst an unusual stir was made in the neighbouring' suburb of Stanmore, the occasion being the celebration in the Wesleyan Church of marriage of Mr. Leggo and…

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A Fashionable Wedding

Evening News · Thursday 1 December 1887 · page 6

ALBURY.—Blanche Gell, of Burrangong, Urana,was to-day united to Mr. David M'Caughey, of Coree Station, Jerilderie. The Rev. J.Henry, Presbyterian, minister, performed the ceremony…

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Fashionable Wedding

The Australian Star · Thursday 8 December 1887 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.-- Miss Clarke, eldest daughter of Sir Wm. Clarke, M.L.C., was married to-day to Mr. Falcon MacDonald, owner of the Wantabad[?]ery…

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A Princely Wedding

Evening News · Friday 9 December 1887 · page 6

MELBOURNE.—Miss Clarke, the eldest daughter of Sir William Clarke, was married yesterday at Rupertswood, with great ceremony, to Mr. C. Falconer M'Donald. The festivities are taking…

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Rice-throwing at Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 December 1887 · page 35

In the days of the Shang dynasty (said the GHINESE TIMES) some 1500 years before Christ, there lived in the province of Shansi a most famous Borderer called Chao. It happened one day that a…

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Marriage of Lord Cairns. a Brilliant Wedding. London

The Australian Star · Wednesday 21 December 1887 · page 5

Lord Cairns, who, when Lord Garmoyle, had to pay Miss Fortessue, the actress, £10,000 for breach of promise of marriage, and who visited…

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A Notable Spanish Wedding

Evening News · Wednesday 28 December 1887 · page 3

Senor Canovas del Castillo, the leader of the Conservative party, was married at Madrid, on November 18, to Dona Joaquina Osma, the daughter of the Marquis de la Puente y Sotomayor…

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