“Bless the Bride” in rehearsal

 

                           

Lucy tells her sisters she would marry “Any man but Thomas T”                             The café waiters check the menu (also known as the script)

 

                                       

Servants and guests being decorative                                                                        “That wasn’t what I thought you said…” – Mary & daughters

 

                        

“Bobbing, bobbing, bobbing” (up) …                                                                        …(and down)

 

                                 

An (imaginary) chess match for the Archdeacon & George                                      “Come dance, my dear…” – Lucy and the young Albert

 

                       

Nanny and Lucy                                              “21 candles today” – Nanny and the sisters                                      Augustus and a wiser Thomas

 

                            

“Croquet brings the husbands our way (!)…”                                                           Augustus & his father Albert (asleep again)