CHAPTER TWO: THE ETIQUETTE OF ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS
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THE HISTORIC ASPECT
MATRIMONY," sings Homer, the poet, "is a holy estate and not lightly to be entered into." The "old Roman" is right.
A modern wedding is one of the most intricate and exhausting of social customs. Young men and women of our better classes are now forced to devote a large part of their lives to acting as brides, grooms, ushers and bridesmaids at various elaborate nuptials. Weeks are generally required in preparation for an up-to-date wedding; months are necessary in recovering from such an affair. Indeed, some of the participants, notably the bride and groom, never quite get over the effects of a marriage.
It was not "always thus." Time was when the wedding was a comparatively simple affair.
This discovery had—and still has—a remarkable effect upon the celebration of the marriage rite. Gradually there grew up around the wedding a number of customs. With the Haig brothers' discovery of Scotch whiskey began, as a matter of course, the institution
CHAPTER TWO: THE ETIQUETTE OF ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS
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