'Mary Burkett of Tewkesbury recalled that most of the women were ill until they docked at New York:

“We got up about 3:30 that morning to see the Statue of Liberty and then waited for the boat to move into the harbor.

But a miracle must have happened because suddenly all the  women who were so ill were able to be up and about again.

Not one of those brides wanted to greet her husband from a stretcher.” '

She was then offered the film Star treatment upon arrival: