A QUAKER WEDDING
A wedding of great interest, and unusual simplicity, was celebrated at the Friends’ Meeting House in Wellington last week, when members of two old and highly respected Quaker families —Athol Fletcher Jackson (Auckland) and Catherine Molly Peet (Dannevirke)—were married according to the simple rites of their faith. The bridegroom’s grandmother, Annette • Jackson, who came to New Zealand over fifty years ago, was largely instrumental in establishing the Society of Friends in the Dominion, and the bride’s family, the Peets, have also lived in the Dominion for many years and have been earnest workers and organisers in the Society. No minister marries a Quaker couple, and no man gives the bride away at a Quaker wedding: During the usual service the bride and her groom stand up, they hold hands, and repeat these simple words, “Friends, I take . promising by Divine assistance to be a loving and faithful husband” (or wife). Then the Quaker registrar reads aloud the certificate, which is signed in the usual way.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 20
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168A QUAKER WEDDING Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 20
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