THE DUKE’S WEDDING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 31 May 1937, Page 7

THE DUKE’S WEDDING

SIMPLICITY OF CEREMONY

PRESENTS FROM THEIR HOSTS,

WOODEN STATUETTE.

(United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 31, 9.45 a.m. PARIS, May 30.

The Duke of Windsor’s marriage, though it will be performed in a luxurious room at the Chateau de Conde, will be identical with thousands carried out daily. The Duke and Mrs Wallis Warfield will sit together flanked by witnesses. The Mayor, wearing his tricolour scarf of office, will conduct the ceremony and pronounce them married. He will present them with an eight-page, papercovered “livret de famille,” in which all the particulars are inscribed. Six pages contain 12 Spaces for the registration of children. Mayors generally indulge ill the joke that when the 12 spaces are tilled they can obtain another book.

A ■ wedding ring has no place in the ceremony. M. and M. Bedaux, the hosts of the Duke and Mrs Warfield, have given them a wedding present of a carved wooden statuette representing a man and a woman embracing, bearing a jewelled plaque inscribed “The Kiss.'” The recipients were delighted with the gift, which was placed prominently among the presents. * The Chateau will be a bower of flowers on the wedding day. Special floral artists have been engaged to decorate the rooms. Mrs Warfield’s bridal bouquet will be brought from London.