WHY A CHICAGO WEDDING WAS POSTPONED

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 161, 1 February 1878, Page 3

WHY A CHICAGO WEDDING WAS POSTPONED

Chicago Tribune

The guests at a recent expected marriage in a certain church on the West Hide were treated to a singular and rather startling sensation at the very moment when the connubial knot was to be tied. The bride and groom were a young couple and had made all the necessary preparations for the anticipated happy event that was to urate them as one, and it was thought by the respective friends of the pair that the course of true love had run quite smoothly with them and a genuine mutual affection existed between thorn. The invited company had entered the house of worship and the attendants on the couple had taken their places around the alter, while the minister remained in waiting to perform the ceremony. The bride, attired in all the gorgeous finery customery on such occasions, alighted from the carriage and the groom stepped blithely and lightly after her and upon her long trail. As he did so the fair lady uttered a low cry, and exclaimed sharply, '' Oh, dear, how awkward you are !" The young man's face colored as he stumbled off the rich garment, and he gave his arm to the lady while laboring under a confused mind. The pair walked into the chucrh and down the aisle to the altar. All eyes rested upon their movements, and a murmur of voices arose as they came in and took their positions before the minister. The ceremony proceeded, the minister ks'uhl the bride if she would accept the groom for her wedded husband, and received the usual affirmative answer, and was about to interrogate the young man when the latter impulsively and unexpectedly said to the bride, '' Oh, dear, how awkward you are !" and, quickly turning on his heel, walked out of the edifice without another word of explana tion, leaving the astonished bride standing at the alter in mute bewilderment:, and the minister and guests in blank' amazement. The young man went his way in a carriage, and the disappointed bride and the maids who sought to comfort her left the church for their homes. The occurrence was an actual one, and has created no small amount of gossip in the vicinity where, the church is situated.