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Offline tillypeg

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Wedding present
« on: Sunday 16 April 17 17:00 BST (UK) »
Just been reading an account of a double wedding in Sussex in 1938.  The lists of presents began with:

(first wedding) Bride to bridegroom - Barometer.  Bridegroom to bride - gold bracelet set with pearls and emeralds.

(second wedding) Bride to bridegroom - Rolls razor.  Bridegroom to bride - table top mangle.

Bet there were some envious comments and comparisons ;)


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Re: Wedding present
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 16 April 17 17:10 BST (UK) »
Come washing day I expect bride #1 would be wishing for the mangle
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Re: Wedding present
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 18 April 17 17:59 BST (UK) »
It's to be hoped that they didn't hold a double wedding breakfast / reception - or one half of the room would've been on smoked salmon, sherry trifle and champagne, and the other half on fish'n'chips, washed down by bitter! I can just imagine what it might look like.
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Re: Wedding present
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 18 April 17 21:51 BST (UK) »
The reception was held "at the Institute".....  The presents are all listed - from Treasury notes to shoe cleaning outfit, bolster covers to sugar sifter, beaded pin cushion to flat irons.  Mind, I remember receiving a grapefruit knife from an old friend of me mam's ;) and that was 1980!  Everything grapefully received....