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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: tillypeg on Sunday 16 April 17 17:00 BST (UK)
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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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Come washing day I expect bride #1 would be wishing for the mangle
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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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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....