#8 october
MARRIAGES
WIMSEY—VANE. On the 8th October, at St. Cross Church, Oxford, Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, second son of the late Gerald Mortimer Bredon Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver, to Harriet Deborah Vane, only daughter of the late Henry Vane, M.D., of Great Pagford, Herts.
–Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon, “Prothalamion,” 1937.
Photo: St. Cross Church, Holywell, Oxford, circa 1920. (x)
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Fierce bustle about wedding-dress—Worth's—period gown in stiff gold brocade, long sleeves, square neck, off-the-face head-dress, no jewels except my long ear-rings that belonged to great-aunt Delagardie. (N.B.—Publisher must have come well up to scratch on new book.)
–Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon, “Prothalamion,” 1937.
Image: Worth gold evening gown, 1930s. (x)
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