WEDDINGS POSTPONED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20740, 6 December 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

WEDDINGS POSTPONED.

TWO ON THE SAME DAY

TROUBLE REGARDING GUESTS. Two weddings which had been fixed to take place in Kngl.and recently did not take place. In one case, at Cropston, near Leicester, postponement was due to trouble over the guests, and in the other, al Atherstone, the bride did not appear at church and was found wandering. An objection by the bridegroom to some of the invited guests led to the Cropston • postonement.. Air. Stanley Sharps, a hosiery worker, living in Leicester, s\id lie told his bride-to-be, Miss J.e Butt, who is a shorthandtvpist, two days ago of his objection to some of the people who had been asked lo the wedding and the next lie heard was that the marriage was off. Mr. Sharpe added that lie tried to put things right but had been unable to do so. A house had been bought and furnished, and Miss Le Butt had resigned her position. Mr. Sharpe decided to go back to the lodgings, since his honeymoon was off.

Mrs. Sharpe, the bridegroom's mother, said she was astonished bv the postponement of the wedding. She said she did not know about it until three hours before the ceremony was to be held. A few people were waiting outside the chapel at 10 o'clock, the hour fixed for the marriage. Mr. Sharpe said:—"l had built and furnished a house, and we, were going straight there, for we were nut going to have a honeymoon." Miss Le Butt refused to be interviewed.

Miss Bode.n, of Atherstone. who was lo have been married .at. the. parish church, did not. turn up at the, time arranged for tlm ceremony. After waiting for some time the bridegroom ' and his friends sent, a message to her home and found that she was not there.

The girl was found some time, later in a hysterical condition wandering in a field near where she lives. iSlie was taken homo and put to bed. Ft, was learned from the Atherstone police later in the day that, before the time arranged for the wedding flowers were sent lo the bride's home. Her parents could not, understand this as they had been told nothing about the wedding. When they spoke to her she went, out and was not, seen again until tho search party found her.