Love AND Marriage
On 8 September 1897, the Sheffield Evening Telegraph reported an “Amusing Incident at a Wedding”. The wedding party were making their way home from the festivities – the blushing bride no doubt looking forward to spending the night with her new husband. Unfortunately, the groom had other ideas. The journey home required passing the local public house, where the bridegroom “was seen to hesitate, and then snatch himself away from his bride, and make for the pub”. Sensing that she was about to be abandoned in favour of a pint, the bride was quick to act, and “seizing him by the collar, with the assistance of the bridesmaids hauled the thirsty one from the doorway and led him home captive”. The course of true love never did run smooth…
Such anecdotes are rife in newspaper archives, providing a humorous insight into an institution that is as old as civilisation itself. Marriage is found in virtually every
