FREAK WEDDINGS.

Hutt News, Volume 6, Issue 4, 28 June 1933, Page 7

FREAK WEDDINGS.

MOVE TO ABOLISH

Are freak weddings about to become a phenomena of the pastf During the past few months various brides and grooms (who wanted to be a little different) have been wed while flying through the air or under water in submarine diving) suits. Others have chosen to say "I do" while riding on aquaplanes, handcuffed together, on roller skates and even in bathing suits, says the "San Francisco Chronicle." Very recently a couple in Madrid, Spain, caught the fever and decided to be made one while riding in an aeroplane. The churchman they chose objected to reading the marriage service while being whirled through space at 150 miles an hour. However, he was prevailed upon finally to perform the ceremony on the ground while high above him the joy-riding husband and wife-to-be looped the loop and did tail-spins. As the clergyman was finishing the service the marriage-plane coasted to the ground and just as the ecclesiastic was saying the Spanish equivalent of

"I now pronounce you man and wife," the happy couple jumped out of the aeroplane and kissed each other. The curious crowd that was present 1 cheered and showered the principals with rice. Then the happy newly-weds hopped off again on their honeymoon. But when the Bishop of Madrid heard of the happenings he put his foot down and declared the marriage invalid. Protests proved vain. The good bishop held that he would not-sanction a wedding unless it was celebrated in a church. Somewhat crestfallen, the mod-ern-minded pair bowed to his will and were united all over again in a house of worship. And now American faddists are wondering whether church authorities in the United States and else will follow the madrid ecclesiastics lead and demand that hereafter all couples be wed in the old-fashioned manner. It is only in recent years that people who wanted to be married took to riding the air waves during the ceremonies. But other frivolous-minded girls and boys decided that it would be even more fun if they started to settle down to the matrimonial routine in far dizzier ways. The older folks were shocked, of course. But the high-spirited grooms and brides told them that this was the twentieth century and that moderns believe in starting off their matrimonial careers in some unusual fashion. There were, for example. Al Drumbaugh and Elizabeth Tappe ,of New York City. When Drumbaugh. popped the question, pretty Elizabeth said, "O.K" but let's not be prosaic about it." And they weren't. But before they decided against what background Al should slip! the ring on Elizabeth's finger, they thought and thought. They they didn't tell many people what they had decided—they merely invited all their friends and relatives to their favouriie bathing re-

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