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Evening Star, Issue 10443, 12 October 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

A wedding in Honduras begins in the bride'a house at precisely 8 o'clock p.m. The relatives and friends of both families are present, the men smoking endless cigars till the .atmosphere—lit up with Japanese lanterns and heavy with the scent of orange and pomegranate—is fairly blue. A band plays, and at last the bridal party take 3 its stand at the head of the eala—the bride always in white, with veil and train, orange blossoms, prayer book, and rosaryi tbe groom-in the regulation tail coat, white tie, gloves, etc. The civil ceremony is then carefully gone through, and then, this done, the cure performs a small part of the church service. Then the cure goes away, leaving the business but half completed. All night long music, feasting, and dancing continue. At four in the morning the cathedral belle peal, the merriment ceases, and the bride and groom set out in procession. At the cathedral door the priest meets them, and the bride extends her small, white hand, into which the groom places thirteen coins, repeating the phrase equivalent to the English: "With all my worldly goods I thee endow."