A Welsh Bidding Print E-mail
Carlisle Patriot - December 27th, 1844

A WELSH BIDDING.
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    For the benefit of such of my  readers as have never seen or heard of a
Welsh Bidding, I must premise that it  is a gathering together of as many of
the friends and friends' friends,  acquaintances and acquaintances'
acquaintances of the bride and bridegroom, as a  number of bidding letters can assemble.
 
    Each of these individuals is  expected to contribute either a gift or a
loan of money towards the  establishment of the young couple. If a loan, that
loan is to be repaid when the  lender, or any friend or relation to whom he may
transfer it, proposes to enter  the holy state.
 
    Thus the wedded pair set up in  life upon the gifts and loans of their
friends, and are able to be called upon  for repayment when they may be totally
unprovided with money.
 
 
~ Sketches in South Wales.
 
 
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