A mock wedding is a funny way to celebrate one of the numerous early
wedding anniversaries, especially if a group of young married women
friends want to join in a surprise.
The bride may be invited to a chum's house and presently the
procession may appear before her.
The bride should have a cheesecloth or mosquito netting veil with
dried orange peel to hold the folds in place, and she should carry a
bouquet of white chicken feathers tied with white tape--the shower
part can be little bows of rags.
The bridesmaids might all wear the cheapest of farmers' hats, with
huge bunches of goldenrod or asters on them or else such things as
little kitchen utensils sewed on the front in place of flowers.
Bouquets of burdock tied with colored cretonne would be attractive
for them, or possibly as a substitute for the conventional shepherds'
crooks they could carry umbrellas with big bows on the handles. A
third suggestion for the bridesmaids is that they carry grape baskets
filled with none too choice outdoor flowers and weeds.
There should be a flower girl, of course, who can wear an abbreviated
costume. Her hair should be in ringlets with a big ribbon tied around
her head, and she may carry a market basket filled with scraps of
paper, or flowers if you prefer, to scatter in front of the bride.
The ring bearer may carry a curtain ring on a sofa cushion.
At the ceremony, of course, you must omit all the really solemn parts,
but you may let someone make up some questions for the minister to
use. For instance, he may say to the mock bridegroom, "Do you promise
to obey this woman?" Instead of saying, "I will" and "I do," they may
say, "I wilt" and "I doth."
For a wedding breakfast, you might serve creamed codfish in heavy
crockery, and follow it with helpings of cream of wheat either cold or
hot, which can be served to resemble ice cream in little paper cases.
There should be a wedding cake which may be only ginger-bread, and
some kind of grotesque motto may be inscribed in the frosting.