EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
A local paper gives the following account of an extraordinary ceremony, combining the marriage and burial services in one. Miss E. Mainwaring, twenty years of age was buried at Portsmouth Cemetery on September 5. The deceased, who was the daughter of an officer in the army, was about to be married, her trosseau and that of her bridesmaids having been provided, but she was seized with fatal illness, from which she succumbed a few days ago. It w r as, therefore, arranged to go through as far as possible, the marriage ceremony before her body was interred, and ac cordingly, several wedding carriages were provided for the accomodation of the friends, the coffin being conveyed upon Messrs A. W. White and Co’s bier from Scuthsea to Holy Church. Portsea, followed by lur friends, in wedding costume, the deceased’s wreath of (•range blossoms being placed at the bead of the coffin. The Rev 1. D. Platt and other clergymen officiated, and after reading the marriage service, that for funeral was proceeded wi 11, after which the cort ge proceeded to Portsmouth Cemetery, where the interment took place.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 607, 17 November 1881, Page 3
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189EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE CEREMONY. Temuka Leader, Issue 607, 17 November 1881, Page 3
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