YOUNG WOMEN’S FANCY
FEWER REGISTER WEDDINGS In the spring a young woman’s fancy turns to church marriages (says a London newspaper). Quick seven-minute register office weddings are definitely out of favour this spring. Register figures are lower than they have been for years. The Rev. Marshall Selwyn, vicar of Brompton Parish Church, the scene of many fashionable society and stage marriages, is happy about it. “I only wish,” he said, “ that people who do not treat marriage as a lasting union would patronise the Register Office. “ Some young girls state quite calmly before their marriage that they will obtain a divorce it the unions do not suit them. And yet, they go before the altar and give serious vows that their marriage will bo binding * until death do us part ’ 1 “ There are couples who make the responses mechanically; those serious vows become nothing more to them than a shallow mockery. I am glad that there are more church marriages, but people who do not regard the -vows as sacred should go to a rcgisftr office.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19340616.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
176YOUNG WOMEN’S FANCY Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in