ROMANTIC WEDDING.
BRIDE WALKS A MILE. There -was great excitement tn the litlic village of Stoke Pero, near Porlock, Somerset, lately, wh"n a wedding—the first tor three years—va.-, solemnised in the tiny church. Tin; bride and bridegroom, both named Ettery, had to wa'k a mile Ihiough sleep and narrow byway- to the church, amt on the return journey a well-known staghunter who had hidden in the bracken -ounded the rail- on the hunting horn, much to the concern of the deer. Mr Elierv, who lives at Wembley, took a part-; of friend; flown for the ceremony. The population of .-Poke Pero ; - onlv //', and there are no road-, no schools or ; oln enw-n. Mrs Ada Hardiny. who plaverl the organ at the wedding, is alsj verger and sexton. There is no v^tar.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20290, 24 December 1927, Page 12
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131ROMANTIC WEDDING. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20290, 24 December 1927, Page 12
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