quently the bride's father places his own motor-car at
the disposal of the bride and bridegroom for this purpose, especially in
the country. The bridal carriage is the only one, according to
etiquette, which the bridegroom is expected to provide.

The invited guests should provide their own conveyances, and neither the
bridegroom nor the bride's father are ever expected to do so. This
should be thoroughly understood by the guests in every case.

The custom of having groomsmen to support the bridegroom is now very
general, as at royal weddings, a royal bridegroom being supported by
from four to six groomsmen. Two of the groomsmen usually act as ushers
and assist in seating the guests.

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=The Best Man= should be a bachelor, although a married man could act in
this capacity. He should either accompany the bridegroom to the church
or meet him there. He should stand at his right hand during the
ceremony--a little in the rear--and should render him the trifling
service of handing him his hat at the close of it.

He should sign the register afterwards in the vestry, and should pay the
fees to the clergyman and to the verger, on behalf of the bridegroom,
either before or after the ceremony, if the bridegroom does not pay them
on arrival.

The bridegroom and best man should arrive at the church before the
bride, and await her coming, standing at the right-hand side of the
chancel gates.

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=The Bride= should be driven to the church in her father's motor-car. If
she has a sister or sisters, and they officiate as bridesmaids, they,
with her mother, should precede her to the church. The motor-car should
then return to fetch the bride and her father; but when she has no
sisters, her father generally precedes her to the church, and receives
her at the church door, her mother accompanying her in the motor-car.

The bridesmaids should arrive some little time before the bride, and
form a line on either side of the church porch, or within the church
doorway. The mother of the bride usually stands beside them.

When the bride arrives she should take her father's right arm, or the
right arm of her eldest brother or nearest male relative, who is deputed
to give her away; he should meet her at the church door in the place of
her father, and conduct her to the chancel or altar.

At choral weddings the clergy and choir head the bridal procession and
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