Famous Weddings
Gioachino Rossini
Aug 16 Italian "The Barber of Seville" opera composer Gioachino Rossini (54) marries 2nd wife, French model Olympe Pélissier (47) in Paris, France
Ellen G. White
Aug 30 Author and Seventh Day Adventist co-founder Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine
Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning
Sep 12 Poet and playwright Robert Browning (34) weds fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett (40) at Marylebone Church in London
Charles Tupper
Oct 8 Prime Minister of Canada Charles Tupper (25) weds Frances Amelia Morse (20) in Amherst, Nova Scotia
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