A SENSIBLE WEDDING TOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9028, 5 November 1892, Page 10 (Supplement)

A SENSIBLE WEDDING TOUR.

It was the young husband who suggested that he and his bride should remain at home for the honeymoon, and send the old folk off for a tour in their stead. The idea was discussed from all points, and settled upon as just the loveliest arrangement possible. "For," said the bride, "mamma and papa haven't had a real long holiday since their wedding tour, and mamma needs rest sorely after all the bother over my trousseau." At first father and mother did not see how it could possibly be managed, but they were overruled at last, and packed up their trunks with a feeling of youthful exuberance upon the eve of the wedding, which occurred in their drawing-room. A simple affair it was, with only a few intimate friends for guests. The bride wore an enchantingly pretty tea-gown, and carried a golden key-basket filled with roses on her arm. Her parents were dressed in new travelling suits, and at ten o'clock they bade the wedded couple a jolly good-bye, and wont their way rejoicing to catch their train. Nobody cried. How could the mother weep over the loss of a daughter she was going to leave safe and sound beneath her own vine and fig tree ? The result of this wedding journey, wherein the parents did the journeying, was entirely satisfactory to everyone. The young husband suffered no inconvenience from bad cooking, for his mother-in-law left a competent and beauti-fully-trained corps of servants, and the domestic machinery moved on golden wheels. It was the beginning of summer, and nearly everybody had left for the country, so the happy couple were left unmolested. And I am sure, should you ask their advice about a honeymoon trip this very day, they would answer that the best way to take a wedding journey is to stay ab home. ' ,t' / j