MISTAKE AT WEDDING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23350, 16 November 1937, Page 9

MISTAKE AT WEDDING

THE WRONG MAN MARRIED “NEARLY DIED FROM LAUGHING” LONDON, Nov. 14. The best man (Albert Muldoon), supplying an explanation of the mistake at the wedding in Ireland, ascribed the situation to his being better dressed than the bridegroom.. He added that he nearly died from laughing when he realised his mistake. Muldoon filled the part of best man at the last minute, the minister placing him and the bride in position side by side. Muldoon placed the ring on the bride’s finger, but made no responses throughout the ceremony, only a portion of which had to be repeated. A' Dublin message dated November 12 said: “A bridal party at a village church in County Tyrone got mixed up. The best man took the oosition at the communion rail which should have been occupied by the bridegroom. The Rev. William Duncan proceeded with the ceremony and prompted the best man, who nervously hesitated over the responses, particularly when it came to ‘ I will but the clergyman, thinking he was the bridegroom, whispered: ‘You must answer.’ After the party went to the vestry to sign the register the clergyman was horrified to find that he had married the best man. He immediately returned to the altar for a fresh ceremony and married the right man.”