CHANGE IN MARRIAGES.
NO " BLUSHING BRIDES."
" There is no such thing to-day as the blushing bride. One might more properly refer to the blushing bridegroom." This view was expressed m London by a West End registrar when discussing the rush of weddings that was taking place before the Old Year had gone. " 1 snould think there have been 25 per cent, more weddings this past fortnight in London than last year," he said. " What strikes me more than anything else is how the sexes have changed in their attitude at the ceremonv.
" A few years ago the bride looked timid and frightened. The whole business seemed to overawe her. To-day she looks on marriage as a great adventure and shows no fear at the ceremony. " The intending husband thinks it a far more serious business than the girl. He seems to feel it more acutely, and many a man shows considerable shyness nowadays." Ail through his experience, says the registrar, he has found that in most cases men were the most self-conscious when it cama to taking the-final plunge
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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179CHANGE IN MARRIAGES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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