Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — A Response. [ARTICLE]

A Response.

At a la-ge and would-be fashionable wedding, held in a town in this State, the solemnity was rudely disturbed by a rather unexpected answer. The bride bad entered on her uncle’s arm and was met by the groom at the chancel. The uncle then returned and took a seat in the body of the house. All went well until the clergyman asked the question: “Who giveth this woman to be wedded to this man ?” He paused for an answer, and the uncle rose, and placing his hands on the pew in front of him, said, in accents louder than are common at weddings, “Me.”— Poston Traveller.