BEDSIDE MARRIAGE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10885, 11 August 1932, Page 4

BEDSIDE MARRIAGE.

CEREMONY IN HOSPITAL. Five years’ courtship between a young chauffeur and his sweetheart had a romantic echo in St. George’s Hospital, London, recently. In a flower-decked ward, named by a happy coincidence Hope Ward, the couple married by special license granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Owing to the ill-health of the bridegroom, due to a serious internal complaint, the marriage had been postponed. He expressed a wish that he should be married while in hospital, so friends made arrangements for the ceremony. Shortly after the clergyman, the Fev. O. F. Clarke, senior curate of St. Paul’s Knightsbridge, arrived, a screen was drawn around the bed and the marriage service begun, Mr Clarke conducting the ceremony from the foot of the bed. At times the bridegroom, who was propped up on pillows, became so weak that he could only make the responses in a faint whisper. When the ceremony was completed he lay back exhausted. The bride, a pretty brunette, wore a brown costume, and was accompanied by a few friends. A friend of the couple stated that “they seemed very much in love, and the young woman was very upset when her fiance had to go to hospital. She took every possible opportunity of visiting him.” The bride remarked that her husband was extremely pleased over the marriage, and he was hoping that his health would improve. v.vaftsatjui* -,' v ' " ,ij_