RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32562, 23 March 1971, Page 18

RANDOM REMINDER

SCENE STEALER

A great deal is said and written and filmed about the greatest day in a girl’s life—her wedding day. All the accumulated feminine wisdom on the subject has been faithfully recorded for centuries, dissected, discussed, regurgitated. There can be no doubt that this is an occasion of tremendous importance to the bride. But one would think, if ever unfortunate enough to be left in female company during the count-down of several months before a wedding, that the bride was going to be the only one pre-

sent with a speaking part in the service. Others regard the wedding as of some importance too. Not the least the bridegroom, who has an equal stake in this particular lottery, but who is usually regarded as being little more than an extra who has somehow acquired a walkon part. Bridegrooms probably have as many palpitations before the big event as the bride. But they are not allowed to say much about them. There was a wedding in Woolston on a recent Saturday afternoon when

the bridegroom unwittingly stole the limelight. Everything went according to plan until it was time for the newlyweds to walk up to the altar to be blessed. The bridegroom had not been well, and although clearly convalescent, was not quite at his best. He chose this moment to fall flat on his face in a faint. He was assisted to a seat in the choir stalls, and there he stayed for the remainder of the service. Oh yes, there was one other misfortune. They brought him a drink. Water.