The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-28
"FRIsBIE" ON WEDDINGS.
Marriage n Delightful Uncertainty.

Marriage n Deisnuut NuCertahn'''
from the Brooklyn Eaglel
Weddings are necessary evils. BY
which mean as now managed they are
evils. The good old fashioned style OF
the bride and bridegroom going to
church with q dozen or so friends and
having tho ceremony quietly performed
was we'll, but why on earth wedding
should be managed with so much pOmp
aud ceremony as is used now, l cannot
see. suppose my notions are ancient,
but if they are, cling to them. Now
a.days it's difficult to know who it is
that is being married. A few nights
ago / went to a wedding, and though
my wife was present l don't till this
day know whether was not married to
q young lady who stood up with me.
There's great uncertainty nowadays.
On this occasion as soon as / entered
the room where the wedding was to
take place, | was seized by little gem
tleman with large rosette, smelling as
if whole drug store had been emptied
over him, who forcibly separated me
from Mrs. +. The sweet-scented youth,
whose hair, by the bye, was so closely
curled that his eyes wore an unpleasant
openness, then put me in line of gen.
tlemen, while another rosetted youth,
with a moustache so pointed at the end
that my wife was in bodily fear of her
eyes, snatched her away and placed her
in along row OF ladies.
was all wonderment.
Before long the bride entered and
marched down between us, and then the
youths with the rosettes began to drill
the two columns Cladies and gentlemen
and marched and countermarched us
until we had got into our right po-
sitions.
1t was regular parade.
Then came the clergyman, and every
eve was turned toward him. Only for
a little while, however. The whole
battery soon fell upon the bride and
bridegroom. "Will she cry?" "Will
he trembleF" l began to think the
marriage would not be o. X. without
some tears and trembling. | wanted to
ask my wife, but / couldn't go over to
the enemy, for tho lady columns faced
us. | looked to the men next me, one
was as deaf as a post and the other was
n German who "do much Inglish no ge-
speak" so had TO wait till the cere-
mony was over. In a few minutes the
clergyman began by saying he supposed
the bride and bridegroom had made up
their minds to get married.
He was a far seeing man,
And then no went on to tell the two
how much they were to love one anoth-
er, and what a solemn occasion it was,
and so on. The usual stock remarks.
And then he pronounced them man and
wife. He forgot to mention any names
or to ask any questions. Under these
circumstances it is not to be wondered
at that all the yOung men who thought
they loved certain young ladies, came
to the conclusion that they were mar
ried just as much as any couple in the
room.
That simple ceremony had, however,
tied the fatal knot. The bridegroom's
hat no longer covers all his family-his
independence is gone. The wedding
proper over, in fashionable circles (and
this, be it understood, was fashiOna-
BILE CIRCLE the most important and in
tricate performances have TO be gone
through. The whole company take up
the march once more and approach the
"cuppy happle," but no company of
soldiers were ever restric ted to more
decided rules than these nuptial spec
tators.