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Image courtesy of E.H.
I like the expression on the groom's face — he looks stunned.
The photographer was Showman of Hobart, which would date the photo to the 1890s.
The bride's dress seems rather plain (difficult to tell exactly, thanks to Mr. Showman's failure to focus). I think it's homemade. The sleeves were supposed to pouf outward, not come to a point high over the shoulder; but sometimes full sleeves insist on doing that, in spite of everything — I had my own failures in that regard, long ago, when I was learning to sew. (Does anyone remember Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman? — the same thing sometimes happened to poor Mary, who was a good homemaker and sewed her own clothes.)
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The look on their faces says "second thoughts" :)
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