Connubiality!

[The day] [Driving around Victoria] [How the press reacted]

The day

After 5 years of playing backgammon, Diane Edwards and Fred Curtis were married on Oct 28th 2001 in a tiny surprise wedding in Fred's grandmother's backyard.

Afterwards, fish and chips were fetched from a local café.

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The conspirators and their succinct vows			Forgotten mobile plus special guest appearance by clothesline & pink towel
Paperwork			The Merchandise
Yes, yes, most amusing			Primitive grooming ritual
In a cereal box, you say?			The guests squashed together

Driving around Victoria

The next few days were spent hooning around the Victorian countryside in a rental car.

Chinese Museum in Bendigo	Small embroidery	Large embroidery
Chinese Gardens in Bendigo	Inspecting the Eight Immortals

Pink Lakes	Predawn sky	Sunrise 1
Pink Lakes	Predawn lake	Sunrise 2

Town Names	Boinka	Underbool
	Wycheproof Pron. Witchy-proof	Galah
	Manangatang	Chinkapook

Paddle boats in Echuca	The Emmy Lou	The Gemma

Back in Albury	Curious number plates

How the press reacted

The judge pronounced them husband and wife, "sentences to run concurrently".
Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."
-- Attributed to Socrates in Socrates by Diogenes Laertius.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher ... and that is a good thing for any man.
-- Socrates
It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"He [...] lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. If he had not married later a woman of exceptional intelligence who made it the only object of her life to preserve him, he would have died many years ago from consequences of sheer neglect" -- Nikola Telsa commenting on Thomas Edison.
-- Quote from "Strange Brains and Genius" by Clifford A. Pickover [More quotes from "Strange Brains and Genius"]
"Oh, I say, Bertie," he said, suddenly, "I know what I wanted to tell you. I'm married."
I stared at him. That flower in his buttonhole. That dazed look. Yes, he had all the symptoms; and yet the thing seemed incredible.
-- From Bingo and the Little Woman in The World of Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse [More quotes from The World of Jeeves]
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. -- Edmond About

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