WEDDING BREAKFAST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 285, 13 September 1933, Page 8

WEDDING BREAKFAST.

"A SANDWICH PICNIC." Dr. Adrian Boult, the eminent conductor and music director of the British Broadcasting Corporation, was married on July 1, in the village of Ditchling, Sussex. The bride was Mrs Ann Wilson, daughter of Captain F. A. R. Bowles, R.N. The Avedding Avas intended to be a secret one, and no one could have been more surprised than Dr. Bault when he found that the secret Avas out. An hour before the ceremony he Avas seen in the Old Meeting House, Ditchling, where Free Christians have gathered for over 200 years, Avith his friend Sir Walford Davies. "This is a terrible shock," said Dr. Bdult smilingly. "I thought our secret was safe, but it is too much to be annoyed on such a day as this. I have no best man, my bride has no bridesmaids, and there is no reception. "We have a much better idea than that. Our wedding breakfast is to be a sandwich picnic on the Doaatis. Then AA-e are going abroad, but I refuse absolutely to tell you where." The ceremony took place in the Old Meeting House, and lasted only a feAV minutes.

Sir Walford Dayies played an aria by Bach on the harmonium, and the couple walked to a table before the pulpit, where Dr. Henry Gow, Unitarian minister at Brighton, married them.