She accompanies the bride to her new home and functions as a companion, adviser and confidante. |
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Smith, the son of a war bride whose marriage to a Canadian paratrooper lasted only two years, was brought up on an estate in Acton, west London. |
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His delightful bride stole the limelight as she looked simply magnificent as she strolled up the aisle in St Mary's Cathedral. |
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The bride will wear Alexander McQueen and the wedding cake is a six-tier affair covered in Swiss white chocolate. |
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The bride looked stunning in an ivory and gold raw silk dress of Irish design and carried a bouquet of delicate cream roses. |
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The bride was given a dowry of three thousand livres in ready money, a third of it reserved for the couple's communal use. |
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With a quiet glow of satisfaction, she smiled at the bride nervously waiting. |
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For those who can afford it, the bridegroom wears a Western-style suit while the bride wears the typical Western white wedding dress with a veil. |
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Christmas bride Audrey Turner looked radiant in her white wedding dress as she walked down the aisle 50 years ago today. |
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And Elea, the blushing bride, wore her long white wedding gown made of silk. |
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The bride wore a traditional white wedding gown, lifted with swathes of tulle in pale cream. |
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There is a bilingual book of the Gospels, c.1300, which may have been produced to help the Latin bride of a Byzantine emperor learn Greek. |
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The receiving line developed from the ancient belief, that on their wedding day, the bride and groom brought good luck to everyone they touched. |
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The bride wore an ivory dress with fitted bodice and straps covered in tiny cream and peach roses and a small trail. |
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The main guys involved in a wedding ceremony are the groom, groomsmen or best man, the ring bearer and the father of the bride. |
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It seemed he would never escape the relentless torture of being forced to choose a bride. |
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His words of lament emphasize the inalienable relation of father to daughter or bride to homeland. |
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Like many of his generation, he had returned from overseas to start a family with his war bride. |
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However, mothers and grannies of the bride need not be alarmed, as wraps, boleros and capes are very much in vogue for the service at least. |
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David was enchanted with his beautiful young bride and she in turn appeared to be very happy with her new life in Britain. |
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The groom wore red and the bride looked elegant in an old-fashioned riding habit. |
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The bride was able to cover her meal, her drinks and then some out of the money she made. |
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The bride brings a dowry to the marriage usually consisting of household goods and her own clothing. |
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The bride will wear red to maintain the festive spirit and regulars will share a full turkey dinner followed by mince pies and Christmas pud. |
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And with more TV appearances likely, it appears the runaway bride is not going away any time soon. |
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On the wedding morning, various ablutionary rituals are performed on both the bride and the groom in their own homes. |
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The callers recounted tedious vows, painfully off-key songs warbled by bride and groom, the inclusion of the groom's dog in the ceremony. |
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An Italian heritage is important, although my mum was an English war bride so I'm probably one of the least Italian-American people on the show. |
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Foul-mouthed Jessie is a Polish war bride who came to America after the Second World War. |
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Tosh, whose mother was a war bride, is currently working on an exhibit about that very phenomenon. |
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The veil was also believed to magically have the power to ward off surrounding evils that wish to harm the bride. |
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The bride celebrated her birthday the day after the ceremony, as the newlyweds jetted out for their honeymoon in the Maldives. |
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The groom's family sponsors the marriage, providing the bride with her wedding dress and other items of value. |
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The organist began to play a wedding march and the people looked to the back, waiting for the doors to open and the bride to appear. |
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Phyllis O Keefe played the bridal chorus and wedding march for the bride and groom. |
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His sister Heidi is a runaway bride turned wedding planner, yet considers Steven to be a loser. |
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The groom puts a wedding ring on the ring finger of the bride's left hand, and the bride may also give the groom a ring. |
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If the bride or groom reacts to the metals found in certain types of jewelry, a platinum wedding ring is the way to go. |
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Joy made a radiant bride and the groom is a great guy, a lot like myself in character and in some ways also like Ann's father. |
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As part of a campaign to tame his wild bride, the groom showed up late, wearing rags and old boots, and carrying a broken sword. |
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The concluding festivity of a Wendish wedding was a shivaree after the bride and groom had retired. |
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The bride is fed jujubes, a date like fruit, to increase the chance of having a son in the near future. |
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There must have been in the war bride, I think, a sense of adventure to meet and marry a Canadian soldier and leave home to a future that they would not be certain of. |
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He became paranoid that his bride would be kidnapped, and told her to never go to the same place twice. |
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The guests form a ring enclosing the bride, Ona, and men dance with her. |
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Marriage rates have plunged in southern Africa since the 1970s, partly because young men cannot afford the lobola, or bride price, required in cattle. |
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Women threw rice on peshmerga fighters, a tradition practiced at Syrian weddings when neighbors welcome the bride and groom. |
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For the ceremony itself, the groom wears a long, loose-fitting garment called a jellaba and the bride wears the traditional long head shawl and kaftan. |
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The bride and groom rode in a limousine from the church to the reception hall. |
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The bride wears a white wedding dress and the groom a tuxedo. |
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Shrien Dewani looked like a broken man after the November 2010 carjacking that left his new bride dead. |
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As to the marriage itself, Rushdie again presents the reader with an acerbic gloss on the fairytale ideal of the white wedding and the beautiful bride. |
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Nandi was the first of Zwelithini's daughters to marry and Mtirara paid 120 cattle and two horses as lobola and bought his bride a R65000 diamond ring. |
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The brave bride had amazed guests when she made it to her wedding ceremony on time despite being rushed into hospital with agonising stomach pains the night before. |
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The blushing bride has her own business as a wedding planner. |
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Chuck Todd solemnized his marriage to Meet the Press, NBC News's 67-year-old public affairs program, much like a blushing bride. |
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With the women in one circle and the men in another, the guests whirl the bride and groom around, dancing with them and surrounding them with concentric circles of joy. |
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She was a blushing bride of seventeen, a sad and stoic wife, a loving mother, an embittered chaperone, and a daughter pushed away. |
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You see the bride and groom in the receiving line and then the camera pans to the right and there's a bunch of shirtless guys with beer cans in their hands. |
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That will be a joyful occasion for bride, groom and the entire community. |
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Let's all put our hands together to welcome the bride and bridegroom! |
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Instead, offer congratulations and good wishes to the bride and groom with a champagne that is crisp but harmonious, with a fine flavour and a lasting finish. |
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Princess Charlene of Monaco, the athletic, South African bride of Prince Albert, is also with child. |
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Traditionally, the groom's family and kinfolk would provide a number of pigs and shells to the father of the bride in compensation for the loss of his daughter. |
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The groom has to give the bride a dowry to make the contract valid, and that dowry is for her and her alone to use as she wishes. |
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The bride was resplendent in a meringue of epic proportions. |
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The bride reportedly wore a custom Chantilly lace mermaid gown by Carolina Herrera. |
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Sisters of the bride, Anita Ainsworth Grund and Temple Ainsworth, served as matrons of honor. |
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After failing to find a wife by 40, he had to rely on plan B, a mail-order bride. |
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Dana Jackson was not your average blushing bride. You see, she went down the aisle on her 100th birthday. |
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The three-day festivities closed with bou-bhat, when the bride served rice to the male elders of her husband's family. |
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On a given day he went to the parental home of his bride to inquire after the health of the family, when they gave him some dango to eat. |
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As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund. |
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He stole away an Irishman's bride, and took a French leave of me and his master. |
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It is unlikely that the groom will turn into Groomzilla, so obsessed by wedding details that he drives even the bride crazy. But it does happen. |
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He was convinced of the need for an alliance with France and had been negotiating a match between Edward and a French bride. |
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It only stood to reason that a woman who knew Him in a Biblical sense would have to be His bride. |
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The bride wore an ivory and pink silk lehenga skirt, a blouse adorned with Swarovski crystals and an 18-foot-long chiffon veil. |
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Part of an ancient pagan marriage tradition involved the bride taking a ritual bath at a bathhouse before the ceremony. |
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Others say that the bride will get on so long as she gets to know the family customs, and have no objection to a Japanese girl marrying in. |
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Through the chaos triggered by Hamlet's staging of it, Guildenstern helps Rosencrantz vie with Hamlet to make Ophelia his bride. |
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She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story. |
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Upon marriage, the families of the bride and bridegroom were expected to contribute to the match. |
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His wedding present to his bride was to turn over 1,487 of his 1,497 shares in the newly formed Bell Telephone Company. |
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In June 1538, Margaret welcomed Marie de Guise, James's new French bride to Scotland. |
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The marriage was unusual because he was a widower of fifty, while the bride was only seventeen. |
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James' bride, Anne of Denmark was crowned in the church at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. |
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Due to the terms of the Treaty of Falaise, Henry II had the right to choose William's bride. |
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Because Elen is found a virgin, Macsen gives her father sovereignty over the island of Britain and orders three castles built for his bride. |
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Tristan's uncle eventually learns of the affair and seeks to entrap his nephew and his bride. |
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During marriages, spinsters of the household stand behind the bride and groom, holding an oil lamp to ward off evil. |
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The church also forbade marriages in which the bride did not clearly agree to the union. |
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Thor finds the dwarf repulsive and, apparently, realizes that the bride is his daughter. |
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The customs of bride price and dowry that exist in many parts of the world can lead to buying and selling people into marriage. |
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He took a bride in the town of Sfax, the first in a series of marriages that would feature in his travels. |
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Christ is the head of the church, and the church is the body of Christ and the bride of Christ. |
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But at Delphi the sun-god's spiritual bride was known in the days of Herodotus as the Pythoness, and later as Pythia. |
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The fact that the bride went through the ceremony without her bridal bouquet is looked upon by many as an unfavorable omen. |
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She waked often in the solitude of the night, imaging the bride and bridegroom on the track of rapture, following the unwaning star. |
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Meanwhile, the ever-so-gorgeous Asin is an equal match as the convincing runaway bride sharing excellent chemistry with Khan. |
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The bride carried a cascading bouquet of peach calla lilies and asparagus fern. |
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Working at the Five and Dime, she met her Charlie on a blind date that led to her becoming a war bride. |
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While stationed in the United Kingdom he met and married his war bride Lorna. |
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When she arrived, she saw that Little Snow White was the bride. |
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The last step is to put the argentous strips in front of the face of the bride. |
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On the eve of the wedding, the groom's parents hosted a rehearsal dinner in honor of the bride and groom at Redbud Springs Golf and Country Club. |
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At a reception in honor of Professor Blake and his new bride, the dean asphyxiates while offering a toast to the couple. |
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In Asura Vivah the bridegroom paid bridal price to bride's father or her kinsmen and married the bride. |
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The taffeta and lace pillow he carried was like that of the flower girl baskets, the set given as a keepsake to the bride and groom. |
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Another blogger, writing under the moniker of Baklawa, said that the bride should file for divorce. |
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Will Longshore, cousin of the bride, served as the crucifer, while cousins of the groom Robert Carson and Robert Nance served as torchbearers. |
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Offi cers said they wanted to save the groom, bride and both families from losing face in front of the guests. |
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The bride carried a bouquet of yellow Billy Buttons, yellow roses, and white calla lilies, beautifully arranged by Mimosa Flowers and Gifts. |
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Escorted by her father, the bride wore an ivory silk gown overlaid with marquisette and hand-embroidered with pearls, rhinestones, and crystals. |
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The bride wore an ivory silk taffeta gown with a portrait neckline and bouffant skirt for the Sept. |
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Elizabeth Meadows and Caroline May, sisters of the bride, served as matron of honor and maid of honor. |
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Given in marriage by both of her parents, the bride was attended by matron of honor Sarah Chanler, of Sterling. |
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Attila claimed her as his bride and half the Western Roman Empire as dowry. |
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The tealites are used just for the moment the bride comes down the aisle. |
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The death of Isabella of Aragon, created a necessity for Manuel I of Portugal to remarry and Isabella's third daughter, Maria of Aragon, became his next bride. |
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When Philip heard of this, he stopped the negotiations and scolded Alexander for wishing to marry the daughter of a Carian, explaining that he wanted a better bride for him. |
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The white banner with the golden lilies of France has been unfurled. The oriflamme has been presented to the virginal bride who stands before the altar in the forest chapel. |
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When the Scots finally began the ransom payments in 1424, James, aged 32, returned with his English bride, Joan Beaufort, determined to assert this authority. |
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The levirate is found in patrilineal societies in which the bride marries into her husband's family while essentially severing her ties with her original family. |
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Anxious to secure his bride, Henry recruited mercenaries formerly in French service to supplement his following of exiles and set sail from France on 1 August. |
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It is then repeated three times as the bride is crowned to the groom. |
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Assuredly a Dudley Sowerby would be immensely startled to find his bride a young woman more than babily aware of the existence of one particular form of naughtiness on earth. |
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Deaths resulting from dowry, mostly from bride burning, are on the rise. |
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Another bride, another June... another season for matrimania. |
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It was written for his wedding to his young bride, Elizabeth Boyle. |
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Holbein travelled with Philip Hoby to Brussels and sketched Christina in 1538 for the king, who was appraising the young widow as a prospective bride. |
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Williams, multi-awarded singer-songwriter-producer, and his model bride were wed among family and friends in Miami at the Kampong National Tropical Botanical Gardens. |
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A prospective bride for Henry VIII, who Holbein was sent to portray. |
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The bride carried a garden-style bouquet of white, cream, blush, and pale peach roses accented with seeded eucalyptus, salmon waxflower, and confederate jasmine foliage vines. |
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Bastards, badmash, sala junglee crooks, never worked a day, took everything, even my new wedding ring,' wails the youngish bride of startling beauty who needs no adornment. |
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Girls wanted to look most beautiful bride, and get groomed from prominent salon and wanted to wear branded wedding dresses so that they could attitudinize. |
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At Louisa's first marriage, the Duke of Wellington escorted the bride. |
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The bride carried a menagerie of white flowers featuring Royal Bouquet orchids, Star of Bethlehem, and Tiki roses with fresh asparagus fern, amaranthus, and blade grass. |
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The bride wore a French antique quartz and diamond lavaliere. |
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I abridged with domfine norsemanship till I had done abate her maidan race, my baresark bride and knew her fleshly when with all my bawdy did I her whorship. |
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I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride. |
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