Weddings /'Over the brush'

[katex]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Last Tuesday me and the old feller clocked up 40 years married.

If we search our hearts, think we all are after a long and happy marriage Margaret ..... sigh .. x

[Steph]

awwww congratulations margaret. I hope i will be married for a long long time too

[cashman]

nice one margaret, makes a cynical old get happy that does.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I married at 19....The wedding was done on a shoe string......seventeen and sixpence for the licence.....two pounds ten shillings for the taxi to take the whole of the wedding party up to the Haslingden Register Office......Bride Groom and two witnesses. My wedding outfit came to the grand total of twelve pounds.......someone gave us a bottle of bubbly which was left over from their daughters wedding....someone else gave us a tier from a wedding cake.......we didn't have a reception and our honeymoon was a daytrip to Blackpool...with chips walking along the sea front. My father said he would give the whole thing six months! 25 years later he handed me some Hong Kong Dollars and a Silver Tea Service and congratulated me 'been a bloody long six months Dad' I told him....he grinned. Last Tuesday me and the old feller clocked up 40 years married. So it can't have been bad luck to see the bride before we got maried....or can it?

Anyone who fancies a good read should look at Marg's wonderful journal, which has the whole story of her courtship, but have your hankies ready.

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by katex

I
Glad to see that the Accy Observer is now giving space to local weddings again, seemed to be a bit thin on the ground for a long while, and I love to read them.

Why does the Accy observer not report on Muslim/Hindu weddings? Any ideas, anyone.

[Gayle]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Why does the Accy observer not report on Muslim/Hindu weddings? Any ideas, anyone.

Well I don't know for definite but this might have something to do with it.

The 'reports' in the paper are actually filed by the bride and groom just before the wedding. The photographer e.g. Reg at Garth Dawson handed us a form which we filled in and handed back to him - he then took the pictures and decided which one to submit to the local paper and they took the information from the form.

(I was actually quite annoyed because one of the questions on the form is about the bride's dress, which of course, I didn't want Chris to know about, so I didn't fill that question in. When the piece was printed they had obviously looked at the photo and made a guess about the dress saying it had a purple front panel when in fact my wedding dress was purple and I had a white coat covering it.)

Anyway, I digress - it is possible that muslim weddings are not reported because they do not use the regular photographers and so do not get the forms and therefore don't get printed.

Hope that helps a bit!