Kathleen It would depend on where the event took place. Civil registration of a marriage could have taken place at the Local Registrar's Office and the repeated names may have been people available in those Offices. If it was in the Church that the bride attended then the witnesses would be known to the couple. Weddings were not the elaborate affairs as of today and may only have had eight or nine people present as family and friends. In my parents case the witnesses were my mother's sister and the best man was of the same surname as my father, but supposedly unrelated. I now think they were 3rd cousins. The party returned to my maternal Grandparents home for the Wedding Breakfast. That was on 24th December 1926. Viola
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