THE Post Office lived up to its reputation of delivering the goods when, only a few hours before a wedding on Saturday, the postman delivered a parcel to 6 Yohden Avenue, Horden, east Durham, and enabled a bride to keep a promise she made to two aunts in America that she would follow the family custom by being married in an American wedding gown.
Posted from New York on January 12, the parcel was presumed lost.
Five days ago, nationwide GPO inquiries had failed to find the parcel.
Miss Ellen Purcell, daughter of Councillor and Mrs M Purcell, a member of Easington Rural Council and secretary of Horden Labour Party, was convinced that Press publicity had a great deal to do with the parcel's safe delivery.
Miss Purcell was married at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church to Mr Kenneth Wood, of 49 Woodlands Avenue, Horden.
The bride was attended by Miss Mary Purcell and the Misses Patricia Isherwood and Linda and Maureen Walsh. The best man was Mr J Dunlevy
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