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Kōrero: Marriage and partnering

Pre-wedding rituals: stag party

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Pre-wedding rituals: stag party

Commuters pass a groom-to-be who is chained to a dog kennel outside Wellington railway station in 1973. Stag parties often involved pranks and humiliations of the groom by his 'friends'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1973/0410

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Megan Cook, Marriage and partnering – Weddings, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/30799/pre-wedding-rituals-stag-party (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 21 April 2011, updated 1 May 2017.