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Methodist Church: Wedding Dress Festival

June 9, 2015 By SO53 News 7 Comments

Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church will be holding an exciting Wedding Dress Festival.

You’ll have a chance to view over 50 wedding dresses and some bridesmaids dresses, which between them span over 70 years.

The organisers from Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church are also displaying photos and other memorabilia in the Church on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June 2015.

Wedding Dress Festival
Methodist Church: Wedding Dress Festival

Everyone is invited to come along and admire the displays and flowers and reflect on their own times of happiness and commitment.

Methodist Church Wedding Festival invitation

Chandler’s Ford: 70 Years of Weddings

Viewing times:

  • from 9.30am to 5pm on Saturday 27 June
  • from 12noon to 5pm on Sunday 28 June

Address: Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church, Winchester Road SO53 2GJ

Between 2pm and 3pm on both days, there will be live organ wedding music played.

Refreshments will be available too.

Donations are in support of Church Projects.

Photo by Staffage via <a href="http://kaboompics.com/">Kaboompics</a>.
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  1. Allison Symes says

    June 9, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    I’m a traditionalist. Adrian and I had the traditional Wedding March (Mendelsohn) and hymns like Love Divine, All Loves Excelling at our wedding. What is quite funny is we had a video produced of our wedding (that dates us both!) and the background music was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem!! Not exactly appropriate for celebrating the big day but never mind…

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  2. Janet Williams says

    June 9, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    Requiem!!

    I often wondered why some patriotic hymns (such as William Blake’s Jerusalem) are sung at wedding, though it is a beautiful song.

    We had a simple wedding at a register office in London, and half a year later, had a gathering with family and friends at the village hall in the village where my husband grew up. No white wedding dress, no hymns! Did I miss out on something?

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  3. Mike Sedgwick says

    June 9, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    When we married 17 years ago, the vicar, whose name I forgot as he did not perform the ceremony himself, spoke to us. With considerable circumlocution and embarrassment his message was that the Bishop of Winchester was concerned that there was too much wife swapping going on in Chandler’s Ford and something should be done about it.
    Perhaps couples were choosing ‘Love Divine’ when ‘Fight the good fight’ would have been more appropriate for their circumstances.

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    • Janet Williams says

      June 9, 2015 at 11:02 pm

      What is Chandler’s Ford known for? Wife swapping? Bank robberies?

      15 years ago before we moved down from London, search engine results revealed that we were moving into a wife swapping area.

      Possibly Chandler’s Ford Today has a ‘moral duty’ to do something about the image issue here?

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  4. Mike Sedgwick says

    June 9, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    Janet asked me my favourite wedding hymn. I do not know but I remember we all loved ‘Guide me Oh Thou Great Redeemer’ or Cwm Rhondda. William and Kate had it at their wedding.
    We senior boys on the back row of the school chapel could really blast it out. The school was very proud of its church music tradition and the choir master would ask us to keep it quiet or even to shut up altogether. We did not contribute much to the ecclesiastical-musical tradition.
    Thirty years later it was deja-vu when, at a re-union, 6 of us were once again on the back row and the hymn was Cwm Rhondda.

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