CIGARETTE BRIDE.
SMOKING AT WEDDING
" I anv terribly nervous. Would you mind if I smoked a cigarette during the ceremony to steady my nerves '!" This was the unique request made to the registrar at a London registry office lately by a bride of 26, an attractive, vivacious brunette.
The bridegroom then turned to the registrar and remarked, " I do not mind. I know just how nervous she is." As the ceremony began he lighted the cigarette for his bride, and in a quiet, modulated voico she gave her vows to him between puffs at the cigarette. " Never in my long experience have I had such an unusual request," said the registrar later. " Nowadays it is a common occurrence for a bride to smoke a cigarette immedi ately after the ceremony when signing the register. It was the more extraordinary when «ifc was realised that the brido was dressed in green. , " Certainly she could not have been superstitious," the registrar concluded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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160CIGARETTE BRIDE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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