Back again, while I
have been away I went to my Granddaughter wedding arranged in most unusual
circumstances. A friend of a friend of theirs had booked a wedding at one of
those hotel places where they do weddings as a speciality and paid a hefty non
returnable deposit. All was well until his bride to be left him with a non
wedding and a loss of £5000. His friend said why don’t you sell it, I know a
couple who are always talking of getting married and so it was that my
Granddaughter had a very sudden wedding. Naturally we went and were surprised
at the grandeur of it all. It seems to me that weddings have increased out of
all proportion with the meal alone reputedly costing £60 a head.
I remember when we
got married the buffet cost 7/6 a head (37.5p) and we got married in a room
above a pub as I remember it we seemed to have a lot more fun. We married in
March so that we got maximum benefit from the tax rebate which was available at
the time. If you married just before April 6th you were classed as
married for the whole of the previous year and so were paid a rebate, I thinks
ours was £25 or something like it. We left our wedding by train for the
Midlands and a 22’ caravan in a field near to where my husband worked. We took
a taxi to our new home and caused the driver a little concern when we asked him
to stop by a hole in a hedge which we passed through to start our new life
together. To us it was more important to be together than wait to save for the
fripperies of to-days weddings. Still the world has moved on but it’s fun to
look back and enjoy our memories both long and short.
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