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- aberdeenlibraries
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- Aberdeen City Libraries
- Location of story:听
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Article ID:听
- A1915733
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- 25 October 2003
There were plenty of wartime weddings but due to restrictions on food and clothes, very few had the opportunity for a white wedding.
I was proposed to on a Thursday at lunch-time and by tea-time on Saturday, I was on the Perth train with my new husband. We were the first couple to be married in the Tartan Kirk (St. Mary's, Carden Place), after it got a hit by a bomb. I got a white wedding dress from Watt and Grant, having scrounged clothing coupons from various friends. We managed to have a small wedding cake and an afternoon buffet for 50 - that was the most number allowed, due to food restrictions - and the Caledonian Hotel really did us proud. All that done in forty-eight hours - quite a feat when one knows how long it takes to organise a wedding nowadays! The cost per head of that reception was 5/=.
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