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Weddings, 1888

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Some of the Presents to the Prince and Princess of Wales on the Occasion of Their Silver Wedding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1888 · page 129

1. One of Three Vases presented by Fifty Gentlemen, Personal Friends of the Prince 2. Tankard, of Antique Design, from the Servants of Marlborough House…

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New Dance Music. Siver Wedding Valse. For Two Volins

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 July 1888 · page 29

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Silver Wedding at Marrickville

The Australian Star · Wednesday 25 July 1888 · page 3

A VERY enjoyable social gathering to celebrate the silver wedding of Mr. W. Westlake, was hold at Cornwall Cottage, Carey-street, Marrickville, the other evening…

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Mr. Gladstone's Golden Wedding. Congratulating the Grand Old Man. London, July 25

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 July 1888 · page 5

Mr. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, have been the recipients of overwhelming congratulations on the occasion of their golden wedding…

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Gladstone's Golden Wedding. Presentation of Addresses and Portraits

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 July 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone celebrated their golden wedding yesterday, when they were the recipients of numerous valuable presents and addresses…

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Mr. Gladstone's Golden Wedding. Congratulating the Grand Old Man

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 August 1888 · page 10

London, July 25th.- Mr. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone have been the recipients of overwhelming congratulations on the occasion of their golden wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone,…

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The Season of 1888. a Pretty Wedding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 August 1888 · page 34

A very pretty wedding took place in St. Mary's Anglioan Church, Waverley, last week, when Miss Minnie Roberts was united in the bonds of matrimony to Mr. J. A, Robertson; the ceremony being…

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A Golden Wedding

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 August 1888 · page 5

ADELAIDE, This Day.-- The golden wedding of Sir John and Lady Mo[?]hett was celebrated yesterday, when a large number of the members assembled to…

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A Precious Wedding Present

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 2

The marriage of t e Duse d' Aosta with Princess Letitia Bonaparte is now fixed, (says the Rome correspondent of the STANDARD), to take place on September 11…

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Wedding Veils and Flowers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 35

Both in Europe and Amerioa orange blossoms are gradually lofting their hold on custom; and there are eo many flowers of a prettier kind that, perhaps, the change is not to be regretted. In Spain, orange…

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New Wedding Dresses

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 35

Since the Britiah Parliament permitted marriages in England to he celebrated in the afternoon without a apeoial licence, a groat change has taken plaoe not only in tho atyiea, but alao tho colors of wedding…

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A Wedding Song

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 32

Ring out, O merry marriage bells! The sacred words are spoken; And on a slender girlish hand Is placed for aye the golden hand,…

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Fashionable Wedding Dresses

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 September 1888 · page 35

One of the newest wedding dresses in London was a combination of white eatin do Lyon and old point d'Alengon, made in the style of the 16th century. The corsage was out square in front, filled in with…

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Ladies' Column. A Parisian Wedding Custom

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 October 1888 · page 2

Parisian brides and bridesmaids do not take with them to church the lovely bunch of white flowers which tradition requires the bridegroom and bis best man to supply; but it…

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A "Flower" Wedding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1888 · page 704

On the 31st July, at St. Stephen's Church, South Kensington, London, Mr. Harry Carrick Webster, only son of Mr. Alexander Speed Webster, was married to Catherine Agnes Balfour, only daughter of Mr…

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The Wedding of Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 October 1888 · page 9

Wednesday last was the bridal day of Wollongong. On that day the fair virgin town became, one of the many connections of the great big metropolis, albeit wedded to him by a band of iron instead of gold…

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The Two Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 October 1888 · page 33

An clderly gentleman was paying his addresses to a fasoinating widow, in whose house a niece resided who was hardly over from home. Whon the wooer and the widow took their loving walks the young…

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The Two Weddings

Evening News · Monday 22 October 1888 · page 6

An elderly gentleman was paying his addrsses to a fascinating widow, in whose house a niece resided who was hardly ever from home. When the wooer and the widow took their loving walks the young…

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Wedding Favors

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 33

On the evening of October 10 the Rev. J. Edgar united the hands of Miss Mary J. Baker and Mr. W. Smythe. The ceremony took place in the residence of the bride, Main street, Young, in the presence of…

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Wedding Fayors

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 35

The village of Manly was quite gay on Wednesday, October 17, in consequsnce of the wedding of Miss Woods to Mr. J. Dean, son of Alderman Dean. The ceremony was performed in the drawing room of the…

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