HINTS REGARD.NG WEDDINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11825, 23 November 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

HINTS REGARDING WEDDINGS.

A wedding usually marks the end of trouble in a novel, but this is considered wholly a novel way of arranging matters, as in real life it 13 nioro ap> to donote the beginning of trouble. There are many kinls of weddings, such as grand, gay, fashionable, golden, tin and tearful. As it takes more than oae swallow to make a .summer, so ifc takes more than one person to make a wedding. Usually it takes two mothers-io-law* with their husbands, their children, and near relatives, a bride, and some hay a bridegroom ; but the Utter perstyiage is of no particular importance, -and, like salt in the porridge, is never noticed unless he is missing-. Tne enormity of his offence in ruthlessly preventing a young and pretty girl from becoming a sad and neglected old maid is deeply i<npre3sed upon him. He duesn'b dare make a joke for fear of being considered a monster, nor look, grave, for fear of being thought <an in I grate* Ho is compelled to wear boots two sizes too tight for him, and look divinely happyBat . the bride is not wi&oufc her anxieties. Besides the- lurking'dreadthat the bridegroom msy dodge the ceremony at the last moment, by taking the early train for the far West, s,he has to give some thought to her personal appaaranco. How appropriate it. may be for a bride to appear in a soiled wrapper and crimping pins a few months after marriage, it is considered bad. form on her wedding day. It frequently happens that a bride who, when she is married, looks in the eyes of her fond lord,~ r ' swefet enough to eat," will, a few years after date, look sour enough to eat ; htm. Tbia is an. eternal mystery. In her appearance the bride should strive to mingle the grave and gay, the lively and sever?. If too serious, people will think she is old, and may imagine that this is her last cbanca. If too frolicsome, they may think she is unbecomingly glad toget married. In this as in all other affairs iv life, the main consideration is what people will think. I Wedding prea«nt3 vary, from a hougft j and lot down fo half a dozen dishi cloths with a red monogram emblazoned on one corner. If you are the father of a real bride something handsome will be expected of you ; but if you are only the father of a bride in a novel aU you have to do is to give her your blessing. , . . This, while it is always a graseful thing to bsstow, is comparatively inexpensive. Congratulations may also be showered upon the young pair ; bat it is not the correct thing to wish them many happy returns of the day. Rice and old shoes are the most appropriate articles of diet to throw after them on their departure, as they beautifully typify the insipid and leathery quality of the food that wjll probably be their . portion, after the honeymoon , is_ over — especially if the bride is. the cook. „ .... . ...: . It is genor lly, supposed ithat a piece of bride cake ■ placed, under . .the pillow will produce remarkable dreams. Experiehce proves $hat the, same piece eaten jnst before retiring wilt be much more efficacious,. , „, , .. . .