Question: 1920's weddings

[saylee.livejournal.com]

I'm doing research for a fic, and find myself up against a brick wall trying to find information on weddings in the 1920s. All my google-fu is turning up are links on planning a flapper-themed wedding, and a few pages on wedding dresses from the period, which while slightly more useful, is not the sort of thing Bertie would notice.

So, does anyone know anything about weddings in the 1920s, especially in Britain, as opposed to America? Traditions we had then that we don't have now, or vice versa? What the reception would be like? Would they do a rehearsal dinner? Would the spongebag trousers Bertie talks about be something worn to all weddings, or only upper class ones? Why doesn't my library seem to have any books on this? Any tidbit is appreciated.

(And don't worry; I promise I'm not marrying off Jeeves or Bertie.)

Comments

[runciblespork.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a silver spatula type thing used for serving fish. Like the top utensil in this photo: http://www.silver2treasure.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/silver-fish-slice-fork-IMG_2611.jpg

It seems the sort of thingamabob you'd get someone when they were getting married.

[nzraya.livejournal.com]

Yes, a fish slice is what speakers of British English call the thing that Americans call a spatula, i.e. the thing you use to flip eggs in a pan. (A "spatula" in British English refers to the flexible rubbery thing you use to scrape out the last of the cake mix from the bowl.)

[trista-zevkia.livejournal.com]

Looks like a cake server, more than an egg flipper spatula. But I'm not much of a cook. But it does seem random enough for Bertie to select to give it to all his married people. Good to know, so Thanks!

[saylee.livejournal.com]

This makes so much more sense that the explanation I had come up with. I am glad to know there was no bizarre tradition of purchasing pieces of fish for newlyweds! It also seems like such a Bertie thing, to buy the same random gift for every couple he knows.

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Gods, yes. That was where my brain was going, and I just could not fathom it.