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`` We 're nearly there , tough luck ! One kiss , please ; no one can see . Say you care , then everything else must true up . '' The wedding took place at high noon in church , with the bishop and two curates to officiate . There was a vested choir singing `` The Voice That Breathed O'er Eden '' ; a thousand dollars ' worth of flowers ; six bridesmaids in pastel frocks and picture hats , shepherdess ' staffs , and baskets of lilies of the valley ; a matron of honour , flower girls , ushers ; a best man , a papa , an aunty in black satin with a large section of an ostrich farm for her hat -- and a bridegroom . After the wedding came the breakfast at the Constantine house . Though certain guests murmured that it was a trifle too ultra like the house itself , which was half a medieval castle and half the makings of a village fire department , it was generally considered a success .