Just two years after the young Queen Victoria had married her dashing cousin Prince Albert, a London newspaper chronicled the nuptial celebrations of a country wedding from a small village in Surrey. The brief social notice concerning the event appeared in the London County Herald during the first week of November in 1842. It was a charming description of the happy event and it conveyed the enjoyment of family and guests in just a few well-chosen phrases that encompassed the customs and traditions of a typical English country wedding at the beginning of the Victorian age.