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Article: Marriage was once a leap of faith: early western weddings produced tales that would make your blood run hot.
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- The Report Newsmagazine
- Article date:
- July 24, 2000
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Weddings are an entry into history, particularly for women, because it's "our thing," states Calgarian Nancy Millar. The author of a previous book about graveyards entitled Once Upon a Tomb, Ms. Millar has now published, just in time for the season, Once Upon a Wedding. "Weddings are peak experiences loaded with significance," she writes. "What we wear, where we wed, what we say and how we celebrate are details that tell more about us than ever we realize. We are the world in which we live or lived. For better or worse." What surprised Ms. Millar during her research into western Canadian nuptials performed between 1860 and 1945 was the number of arranged marriages she ...