Show Wedding edding Gifts Gifts Once nce Held Legal Obligation By n w wedding custom common cC In tho British Isles until tile the lie early emly part of the Nineteenth century rj the couple sent out In which pros eats were solicited from those who the bl bidding More strange these solicited gifts gUts were were regarded in 10 the light of debts to he tie paid birkby by the couple On the Ule eve ee of th the we wed wedding received at his Ills hou house e ding tile the groom presents of money cheese butter butler and ond cattle callie from frem his friends and the lie bride retched received similar gifts at nt her house Crum ruin her tier friends s An account of cacti h gift and ami the giver was kept In ID writing by bj tile the clerk of ot the and the presents then lien became debts which In some cases were or as as- assignable assignable to other persons In other or words s these wedding gift debts were repayable upon demand at nt any time kind and upon refusal recoverable at law r It a was In n Scotland h however we cr where here n 11 wedding became n real business eve t At AI their penny We weddings of 01 the lust last century the the- lie lie- expense of ot the was defrayed not nor by the or their friends but by liy hy the guests nil of oC whom paid something or or stayed awaY rw News r w |