UNUSOAL WEDDING

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1933, Page 2

UNUSOAL WEDDING

COUPLE; 3000 MILES away

CEREMONY IN TWO COUNTRIESThe little private chapel at (>pesthorne Hall, Chelfovd, Cheshire, the residence of Sir William BromleyUavenport, where no marriage has ever taken place, hag been the scene of a miidmglit "telepathic” wedding, probably without parallel. It was a service without either bride or bridegroom. Yet there was nearly every.hing else to connote a wedding —a gaily decorated church, the Rural Bean of Macclesfield, the Rev. C. B. Welland, wedding hymns and prayers from the marriage service, and a congregation of relatives • and well-wishing tenantry.

/■The bride and bridegroom { were actually being married more than 3000 miles away in the church of Old SL David’s, at Radnor, Pennsylvania) United States. They were Captain 'Walter Bromley-Davenport, eldest son of Major and Mrs Bromley-Davenport. of Capesthorne, and Miss Lenette Jeanes. It was the idea of the bridegroom’s mother to hold the service at Oapes-t-home Had!—with the consent of Sir William Bromley-Davenport, his uncle —to synchronise with the actual wodding service in America. Ais a symbol of the union being solemnised' across . the Atlantic the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes mingled on. the altar. The Rural Dean read a portion of the wedding service and pronounced the prayer of blessing for the bride', find bridegroom. Sir William Bromley-Davenport and his sister, Lady (Alice) Ridley, were present. I