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Why A Chicago Wedding Is Postponed

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
November
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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The guests at a recent expected marriage in a certain church on the West Side were treated to a singular and rather startling sensation at the very moment -when the connubial knot was to be tied. The bride and groom were a young couple, and had made all the necessary preparations for the anticipated happy event that was to unite them as one, and it was thought by the respective friends of the pair that the course of true love had run smoothly with them, and a genuine mutual affection existed between them. The invited company had entered the house of worship, and the attendants on the couple had taken their places around the altar, while the minister remained in waiting to perform the ceremony. The bride, attired in all the gorgeous flnery customary on such occasions, alighted from the carriage, and the groom steppecl blithely and lightly after her and upon her long trail. As he did so the fair lady uttered a low cry, and exclaimed, sharply, " Oh, dear, how awkward you are !" The young man's face colored as he stumbled off the rich garment, and he gave his arm to the lady while laboring under a confused mind. The pair walked into the church and down the aisle to the altar. All eyes rested upon their movements, and a murmur of voices arose as they came in and took their positions before the minister. The ceremony proceeded, the minister asked the bride ií she would accept the groom for her wedded husband and received the usual afnrmative answer, and was about to interrógate the young man when the latter impulsively and unexpectedly said to the bride: "Oh, dear, how awkward you are !" and, quickly turning on his heel, walked out of the ediflce without another word of explanation, leaving the astonished bride standing at the altar in mute bewildermentand the miDister and guests in blank amazement. The young man went his way in a carriage, and the disappointed bride and the maids who sought to comfort her left the church for their homes. The occurrence was an actual one, and has create.l no small amount of gossip in the vicinity where the church is situated. - Chicago Tribune.

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Old News
Michigan Argus