CURIOUS WEDDINGS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8756, 5 March 1907, Page 1

CURIOUS WEDDINGS.

At the marriage the other day of Mr Basil Howard Alers Hankey, of Notten Lacock, Chippenham, and Miss Gooden, daughter of Colonel Gooden, of Nether Compton (Dorset), the bridegroom was bom into church on a chair, he having slipped and sprained his ankle an hour before the ceremony.

The carrying chair is no stranger to the wedding scene for not long ago a smart young officer of the Royal Engineers, who, owing to severe wounds received in South Africa, had spine trouble, was carried into church, and the ceremony was performed as he lay flat upon his back. There is a bright sequel to this marriage, for, by his wife’s care and nursing, the husband can now walk about as before.

. At a wedding in. the country a little while ago it was the bride who led the bridegroom down the aisle, he being blind. Qn another occasion the bride, who had crushed her foot in a hunting field, was carried from her carriage to the top of the aisle, where during the service she sat beside the bridegroom, and was afterwards carried into the vestry to sign the register.

Much interest was taken in the recent marriage of a young doctor, whose bride, a very beautiful girl belonging to one of the best families in the North, was deaf and dumb. It required two clergymen to perform the ceremony, one declaiming the service in the ordinary way and the other “ speaking " it in the deaf and dumb language.