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PEASANT BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM OF A HANOVERIAN DISTRICT, WITH THEIR CHOSEN ATTENDANTS
| Weddings are celebrated with extraordinary fervour in some country places of Germany; not always, perhaps, so much from a religious point of view as from the fact that a marriage affords ample opportunity for the delights of a family festival. The young men and maidens, often attired as elaborately as the bride and bridegroom themselves, are the life of a wedding party, which inevitably terminates in joyous feasting and dancing |