CIGARETTE BRIDE
SMOKING AT WEDDING “I am terribly nervous. Would you mind if I smoked a cigarette during the ceremony to steady my nerves?” This was the unique request made to the registrar at a London registry office lately by a bride of 26, an attractive, vivacious brunette. The bridegroom then turned to the registrar and remarked, “I do not mind. I know just how nervous she is.” As the ceremony began he lighted the cigarette for his bride, and in a quiet, modulated voice she gave her vows to him between puffs at the cigarette.
•‘Never in my long experience have I had such an unusual request,’’ said the registrar later. “Nowadays it is a common occurrence for a bride to smoke a cigarette Immediately after the ceremony when signing the register. It was the more extraordinary when it was realised that the bride was dressed in green. “Certainly she could not have been superstitious,” the registrar concluded.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 3
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