WEDDING BREAKFAST
BUT NO WEDDING BRIGHTON, October 14. Guests here to-day showered a young man and his fiancee with confetti, then sat down to a wedding breakfast and toasted the health of the bride and bridegroom without knowing that the wedding ceremony had not taken place. Mr. George Albert King, a 24-year-old traveller, of St. Martin’s-street, arrived at Brighton register office with his bride-to-be, Miss Ada Moreton, 30, of Round Hill-crescent. There •they were told by the registrar that they could not be married until next Monday, as they had not completed the necessary 21 days’ notice. Miss Moreton, who had made the arrangements, had confused the necessary register office period of notice with the three clear Sundays’ notice demanded by the Church. They tried to get a special licence, but there was not time, and the ceremony had to be postponed. 4 The couple thought of the 30 guests waiting outside. To save them! disappointment Miss Moreton slipped' on her wedding ring and walked with her fiance from the, bujlding amid a shower "of confetti.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1936, Page 4
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