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Show I ! Strange Wedding Customs i i si 3' - - 1 ' ? ' f lr ' ' j Picture! ' M y-v' ' ' 1 V. Ci - J i..- f , - 42 ? ' LA i - "ft " La. L ' . In Japan, where many a romance I has recently been shattered by war, brides follow age - old ; customs in pre- paring for their wedding day. The coy miss at the right, atop her father's horse, is en route to the neighboring neighbor-ing villagewhcre she will join her husband - to - be at the wedding. DEOPLE get married ' each day in all parts of the world, but every j country has its own unique ceremony. In i America, where tradi-Uon tradi-Uon has been thrown to the winds, people are likely to get married any place. In Los Angeles, An-geles, for example, an enterprising photographer photogra-pher caught the above wedding under water. It was a publicity stunt and participants were equipped with microphones. micro-phones. In Holland (left) the bride feeds her husband hus-band a traditional mixture mix-ture of brandy and rais-tns. rais-tns. He's making a wry face but she says, "You might as well get used to my cooking now, voung man!" i ' C ". . ... -j Austrians. Hungarians and Baltics lead all other peoples in making festive on the wedding day. Preparations Prep-arations start weeks in advance, ad-vance, the entire neighborhood neigh-borhood sharing in plans to get the bride and groom off to a prosperous start Although preparatory operations op-erations almost overshadow overshad-ow the marriage itself, there are many complexities complex-ities to the final ceremony. On the morning of the wedding day in Serbia, relatives of the bride go to the home of Uie groom and stand by him during the ceremony of having his face shaved clean. It's a strange world! ; y v . r v 1 x v V )' r,- n t . ! "-i- ', 'V 7 YV: - V ! Q -"'.A, M k'J fchfat.' fmt rtWf, , i:' L,l. .... ..w..-J On the island of Cumarguc, France, a bnllty horse might ruin a wedding. wed-ding. Custom demands the bride and groom shall ride to the church on th back of the same white horse. Their attendants, also on white horses, follow. fol-low. This groom seems to bo monopolizing the saddle whilo his unhappy looking bride hangs op ns best she can. i EAST INDIES ? n , ENGLAND i 1 !' i . ' - 'i' ! ;;' ' : t - ' e, ., ; 1. r , , : ., , ' x .. . j s i C i ,- . .! . v--" -4 ' They ride on the shuuhlcr In India, oil the arm In Kngland ' |