Cupid Stages A Record Rush
at Gretna Green LONDON. May 15. Richard Rcnnison. who is at prose .t the blacksmith-priest at Gretna Green, married 16 couples during the Easter rush in April. This is a record for 100 years. His charge is £l. including the payment of witnesses. The majority of couples call on him without nolleRecently an Edinburgh doctor and his fiancee, after inspecting the relic*, suddenly decided to be married, and Rennison performed the ceremony. Runaway couples still seek Gretn i Green, but a guardian recently prevented the marriage of his Australia!' ward to her lover, whom he pursued from the Highlands a taxi-cab. stopping the ceremony by telegraph. Another couple was wedded by the light of a flash lamp since the forge is not lighted artificially.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 9
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129Cupid Stages A Record Rush Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 9
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