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The Modern Fashionable Wedding

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Day
28
Month
February
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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couples going to a hotel immediately after the marriage ceremony has become so common as to have almost superceded the old time wedding tour. Now-a-days a public marriage in upper New York is not considered complete until the couple have driven to the nearest f ashionable hotel, and have passed at least a week within its walls. This is specially true of what are known as evening weddings-those held in some notable churches, and followed by a crowded reception in the bride's home. After the last congratulations have been exchanged, the bride and bridegroom thread their way through the tlirong of black-attired men and bebeflounced and bejeweled ladies nnder the arched way, which the thoughtful master of ceremonies has provided, until tliey reach their coach. In banging the door the head usher takes care to ut ter in a stage whisper, "Drive to the Pennsylvania depot," or the "Grand Central," as the case may be, and the tlirong returned,imagining that the lioneymoone is to be spent in Philadelphia or Boston. The carriage ha gone hardly a block bef ore down goesthewindow, and the driver reins in his horses as lie hears : "Where did they teil you to go?" "ïo the Pennsylvania depot, sir." "Pennsylvania depot ! Pshaw ! Drive to the Buckingham." And to the Uuckingham they are whirled accordingly. Por years this clever little deception has been practiced by young bridal couples, without any one except the proprietors and the coaehman being in the secret. Of late, however, the practice has become so popular and so wideïy known that the affectation of a wedding tour is only kept up for the sake of appearances. "Philadelphia" and "Boston," in the vocabulary of Ilymen, have come to mean "Windsor" and 'Buckingham."

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Old News
Michigan Argus