CURIOUS MARRIAGES.

Colonist, Volume XIX, Issue 2281, 8 September 1877, Page 4

CURIOUS MARRIAGES.

Two unusual Bcenes in connection with marriages, are reported from different parts of Scotland. The first occurred at Fandridge, near Carnausfcio, where a young woman started up in tht gallery of the parish church, and objected to the marriage of a young fisherman, whose banns had just been " cried.'' Tho fisherman and his intended bride, however, got over the difficulty by going to Dundee, wbers they were married in a solicitor's office, and the union afterward* was duly ratified by the Sheriff. The other caie, ■which occurred at Cromarty, is much more singular. A couple there were duly " proclaimed," and thereafter applied to a minister of the Established Church to marry them, but this, for reasons ', which are not given, he declined to do. The. disconsolate couple then paraded tb» streets till a late hour, pouring forth their grierances into the publio ear, much to the amusement of the boys of the town. At length they hit upon a plan which they proceeded to carry out on the following Sunday. The congregation of the parish church was then not a little astonished, when the pair unexpectedly stood up in their pew, and the man declared in a loud voice. "I take you, Johanna, to be my wife," she following, up with a corresponding declaration in a tone not less clear and firm. This, of course, if no impediment exists, constitutes a valid marriage in Scotland, so it is to be hoped that the persevering couple will now "live happily ever afterwards."