TELEGRAMS TO BRIDES
(N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Jan. 20. A Victoria clergyman has attacked what he described as the “nauseating practice” of sending telegrams containing “sexual ambiguities” to brides and bridegrooms at wedding breakfasts. Archdeacon G. F. D. Smith, rector of Shepparton, Victoria, said that when he was toastmaster at a wedding breakfast he censored the telegrams before they were read to guests. “But often a best man will introduce a telegram that has no genuine origin for the purpose of creating a cheap laugh,” he said. The Rector asked parishioners at an evening service: “How does this nauseating suggestiveness fit into the pattern of the sacrament of marriage? It just doesn’t, and is not welcomed, in my experience, by either the bride or the bridegroom.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30965, 22 January 1966, Page 2
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