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The wedding is over, and it went very well; the church was almost filled with spectators; the guests sat in the chancel; there were six bridesmaids and six groomsmen; the bridesmaids wore white with a blue wreath on their heads; Emily seemed very nervous; Capt[ain] Maude seemed more composed; Margaret did not go to the church; Tom Bold was at the ceremony and the feast; the table was beautiful and arranged in a horseshoe shape; thinks there were 36 guests all together; the gentlemen received a pretty boutonnaire upon leaving thwe church; the breakfast lasted about an hour and a half; the Reverend Mr. Favell [?] toasted the bride's good health; Harold Littledale toasted Mr. and Mrs. Addison; Mr. Addison replied, and he was very emotional; the bride and groom left in a carriage for Birkenhead to tae the train to London; the guests threw ladies' satin slipers at them when they left; John Tobin said the blackberry plants are doing very well; he asked whether they should be treated like raspberry plants; told him he assumed so; will let mary Bold tell her abut what the bride wore. 2pp. ALS