Garfield County News | 1929-07-05 | Page 7 | Wedding "Gifts" Once Held Legal Obligation

wedding gifts once held legal obligation by a wedding custom common in tho the british isles until the early part of the nineteenth century tho couple sent out invitations in which pres ento were solicited from those who walo accepted the bidding more strange these solicited gifts were regarded in the light of debts to be paid bad by the couple on the eye eve of tile the wedding the groom received at tits his house presents of money cheese butter and cattle from his friends and the bride received similar gifts at her house friends an account of each from ho hr hor r gift and the giver was kept in writing by the hie clerk of the wedding and the presents then became debts which in some casts cases were transfer rable or as asi ble to other persons in other words rt these wedding gift debts were repayable upon demand aenny at anny time and upon refuse t recoverable at law lan 1 it was in scotland however where a wedding became a real business eve evea it at their penny weddings of the last century the expense of the marriage was defrayed not by the couple or their friends but by the guests guesta all of whom paid something or stayed away detroit news