The following was reported in the Reading Mercury on the 2^nd April 1870:

ST NICOLAS CHURCH. – A somewhat singular wedding took place in the Church at about 10 o’clock on Monday morning. James Farr, an invalid, 62 years of age, living in Back-lane, was united in wedlock with Ann Bailey, a woman about 20 years his junior. The most singular fact, however, associated with the event was that Farr was wheeled through the streets to and from the Church, by the bride, and it was only with the assistance and that of other persons in the Church, that he could make his way up the nave. The Rev. C. Boyd, senior curate, was the officiating clergyman.

Sadly, Ann was widowed 8 days after she was married. James died aged 62 on the 5^th April, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th April 1870.

The following was reported in the Reading Mercury on the 9^th April 1870:

The married life of James Farr, of Back-lane, whose somewhat singular wedding was noticed last week, has proved very brief, his death having taken place on Tuesday. The parties had lived together previously, and Farr being very infirm, in fact quite bed-ridden, desired to be married to the woman, who wheeled him to Church and home again.