AN “ALL-THIRTEEN” WEDDING

Hawera Star, Volume L, 9 February 1931, Page 10

AN “ALL-THIRTEEN” WEDDING

BRIDE! DRESSED IN BLACK. A bride wore black and introduced the number 13 in every possible and novel way in iher wedding at Hatfield, Hertfordshire Register Office last month. She was Miss Ivatlileen Wallhead, daughter of Mr. JR. O. Wallhead, M.P., for Merthyr. The bridegroom was Mr. Charles Korner, a surveyor attached to j the Great North Road extension | scheme. j Here is the combination of 13 s surrounding the ceremony: The wedding took place on the 13th before 13 guests. Thirteen photographers later snapped the couple, who are to live in a house numbered 13. “Wo do not mind; I am not superstitious,” said Mrs. Korner after the ceremony. “What difteernce can a number make? IVe have to make our own fortunes and our own luck.” . The ceremony was a quiet one owing to the fact that the bridegroom was very busy and could not afford to be away from his work. “So wei are being married all in a day’s work, saici i the bride. , ~, ~ , | A woman friend of the bride attend- j ed the ceremony with a small black , kitten who* wore a. white ribbon boa tied with a spray of heather m order the break the ill-omen of 13.