Unaisi Ratubalavu
2 April, 2021, 12:00 am
The groom, Harry Dugdale, places the wedding ring on to Adi Litia Mara’s fi nger under
the watchful eyes of celebrant Archbishop Petero Mataca. Picture: FT FILE
THE weather was perfect and the event was dubbed as the “wedding of the year”.
The year was 1991 and the union was between Harry Dugdale and Adi Litia Mara the third youngest daughter of the late president and former prime minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
According to a report in The Fiji Times on September 2, 1991, shortly after 11am the previous Saturday as guests were seated and the groom and his best man waited at the altar, the bells tolled at the Sacred Heart Cathedral signalling the arrival of Adi Litia.