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Show Norway Wedding Feast One to Be Remembered inal sum. Other parts of the costume are often the church's, too, and the bride who cannot afford to purchase an elaborate bridal outfit can always hire one. A Norwegian housewife will spend months in the active preparation of a daughter's marriage feast. Friends, neighbors, acquaintances, kinsmen and kinswomen come from far and wide. All must be welcomed. All must be fed and "refreshed," and without limit. lim-it. There must be cheese, sweet soups, puddings, fish and game in enormous quantities. To have any one of the most numerous Hems of drink or food give out or run short would be a disgrace dis-grace which nothing could wipe out. There must, above all, be brandy in mad abundance. As a rule, several couples are married at the same time. This diminishes a waste of time, and concentrates to one occasion what would otherwise be spread over several. sev-eral. The gowns which the Norwegian bride wears are often of great value. They are frequently the property of the church, and are hired for a nom- |
