BRIDAL TOBOGGAN PARTY.
PROCESSIONAL SLIDE TO CHURCH VIENNA, March 17. Two enthusiastic tobogganists — Herr A. Meyer and Fraulein Schwarz— eel. b rated their wedding yesterday m m original manner at their native mountain town, Payrbach, near Vienna. Owing to the unusual length of lie winter the streets of the town are deep m snow, and the wedding procession slid down a steep hill from the bride's house to the church on seven toboggans decorated with pine branches and flowers. The bride led the way with her fathjv, her mother and the other wedding guests followed, and the bridegroom brought up the rear.
Visitors, staying m Payrbach, whi h is a great resort for winter sports, cheered the bride and bridegroom loudly as they left the church, and toboggan races, m which the bridal party took part, were organised on the spot for the afternoon m honor of the event. rT; .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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150BRIDAL TOBOGGAN PARTY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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