TRIPLETS’ TRIPLE WEDDING

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1928, Page 4

TRIPLETS’ TRIPLE WEDDING

GIFT FROM MORE TRIPLETS. BRUSSELS, June 25. Boom, a little town hear Antwerp, lias celebrated in worthy maimer this week-end an event the like of which is extremely rare. Triplet sisters— Josephine, Pliilomene, ' and Maria Boeyiutiiis—who bad just reached their majority, were married, and no princess’s wedding was ever surrounded with more cereniony and gaiety. The triplets are daughters of work-ing-class people, ancl have iiine brothers and sisters living. Six others jiuve died. On Saturday morning they walked over roads on which silver sand bad been sprinkled to the town hall. Through the gaily decorated streets they were 'accompanied by their grooms and members of the four families—the husbands are not related. A picturesque procession of children followed them 1 through rows of cheering spectators. CIVIC GIFTS. The civil marriage ceremony over, tjie Mayor of Boom in a happy little speech, presented the town’s congratulations and marriage gifts. Then appeared more triplets, the unmarried daughters of a docker of Eeckeren, who had come to offer flowers to the wedded trio. ' Mmes. Magnus, Van; Linden, and Troch, whom Josephine, Pliilomene. and Maria had "now 'become, then led tfieir husband away to the decorated and overcrowded church, where the nuptial blessing was given in the course of a solemn Mass. At 2 o’clock there Was a wedding breakfast, during which the couples were the recipients of all sorts of presents. Afterwards the public joined in the rejoicing, and special permission having been granted by the authorities, there was miisic and dancing for tile, rest of tho day and all the night. *So much alike are the triplets that during their courting days each had been mistaken for one of her sisters.