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marrying for love and who then find that it isn’t there. Arranged marriages seem
to last, and that is a good thing.
I – And is sixteen the age that girls get married?
R – Well, my mother was married at thirteen, but that is considered too young
now and….. at one time it used to be twenty, but it was found that the girls were
then too old to be integrated into their new families, so now it is usually when
the girls are sixteen or seventeen, yeah.
Listening Activity 3. Wedding Upset.
…and she was terribly keen on him, I’m not sure if he felt quite the same, but
anyway…somehow or other she got him totally hooked. He was frightened, I
think. And anyway, he finally proposed and she accepted him at once, took him
down to see her parents and they arranged a wedding for two hundred people
absolutely at once and he never had the nerve to get out of this wedding.
So we all went down to Norfolk where the wedding was going to be held, all
200 of us, most of us from London and the whole thing began very smoothly. It
was a charming little church, it was decorated quite beautifully. My friend was
in a lovely gold and white wedding dress with a veil over her face. The groom
was looking very handsome. The best man was there and everything seemed to
be going perfectly until it came to the point where the vicar said during the
course of the service, “Will you take this woman to be your lawful wedded
wife, to live together in the holy state of matrimony….?” Or something like
that… . And anyway, there was a pause, and the groom said, “I wouldn’t dream
of it!” And this was the most enormous surprise to all of us. The vicar simply
couldn’t believe his ears and he repeated the question. The groom paused again
and then said, perfectly confidently, “Not a chance in hell!”
Alison, who was my friend burst into tears. Her mother fainted. Her uncle
cried out, “The boy should be whipped!” And Alison’s father took the groom by
the ear and hauled him out of the church. It was only 11.15 in the morning still
and after a few minutes of chaos, it was decided to hold the reception straight
away in the huge tent outside. And it was one of the best receptions I’ve ever
been to because usually the people from the different families have very little to
say to one another except how pretty the bride looked (even if she didn’t), but
on this occasion , everybody had plenty to talk about. And everybody was
extremely happy. By two o’clock in the afternoon there was an announcement
that the wedding was going to take place after all. So we all went back into the
church, which was still looking very beautiful, the bride was looking fairly all
right (the veil was over her face), mother looked an absolute mess, father wasn’t
at all confident…he was very red in the face. And the bridegroom was as
handsome as before. Unfortunately, the organist had had a little too much to
drink and was playing the organ very rapidly indeed. I think he was nervous it
was all going to go wrong again. So, consequently, my friend, the bride, and her
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