The practice involves commissioning studio portraits of prospective brides for presentation to potential spouses. |
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Therefore, parents take it upon themselves to choose the brides and grooms for their children. |
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I've heard of self-absorbed brides and grooms, but this is a whole new level. |
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With the brides and grooms gone the suits played some dance music and the crowd started dancing. |
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In the presence of family and friends, the grooms kissed their brides with love and tenderness. |
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Danish brides and grooms used to confound the evil spirits by cross-dressing. |
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The Celtics have many superstitions and traditions surrounding weddings and brides in particular. |
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How do I prevent the all too familiar pre-wedding bloating experienced by so many brides on their wedding day? |
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Vulnerability to domestic violence may be encountered as daughters, sisters, brides, and wives. |
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It's interesting, Antonia, because brides and grooms are so much more pragmatic these days. |
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This post-World War II immigration wave was made up almost entirely of war brides of American servicemen stationed in Iceland. |
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Unlike other blushing brides, the blonde model has had a considerable amount of practice wearing wedding gowns. |
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The family run-around has outshone the flashy roller as the car blushing brides are most likely to ride to church in on their big day. |
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Suggesting that this is an opera about fidelity, he has made all the characters brides and bridegrooms. |
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Part social and part scientific, the courses were especially important for bringing together war brides about to leave for a foreign country. |
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Many trendier brides are also opting for churidar kurta as their bridal wear. |
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The inventories of the wedding presents given by the crown to royal brides show the popularity of boxes decorated with enamels. |
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His disavowal notwithstanding, he sounded more concerned about the rights of polygamists than about the plight of child brides. |
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The brides reflect the styles of the day, with the stiff starched elegance of the grooms' dapper morning suits also forming a real contrast. |
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Some brides choose a night of frivolity, such as male exotic dancers and lots of alcohol, much like the groom's bachelor party. |
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While most brides today marry in white, the tradition is only as old as the 16th century. |
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For instance, there were families, which did not mind much about the brides and bridegrooms belonging to different sects. |
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French brides stepped upon an egg before crossing the threshold of their new homes. |
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It was the linen of nuns and convents rather than of brides and marriage beds. |
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It is beauticians who make brides and bridegrooms the cynosure of all eyes. |
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Women wrestled then befriended adultresses, men abducted brides, light-hearted capers segued into murder. |
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The count plots to exercise his droit de seigneur, the right of titled men to deflower the brides of lesser folk. |
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We both wanted to have high school sweet hearts and be young virgin brides. |
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And with them, the practice of British men taking Indian brides or mistresses passed into history. |
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The brides looked resplendent in red shararas while the grooms were dressed in long Indian coats, and laced caps. |
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The farmer put his hand to the plough to find brides for lonely country men. |
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The vehicles park side by side, the brides are hastily exchanged, and the cars head home to the waiting grooms. |
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The language of flowers is still observed, though probably not consciously, by many brides as they make their choice of wedding bouquet. |
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As wedding season gets under way, two Tassie brides have shown you don't have to spend a fortune for a memorable day. |
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Because brides often converted to the faith of their husbands, all of the major religions within Lebanon competed for converts to their faith. |
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Print up invitations to a marriage, publish banns at a friendly church, have one or more brides or grooms and even eat wedding cake. |
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In the third act, the Prince politely waltzes with six prospective brides chosen by the Queen Mother. |
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There were brides in silky, flowing gowns, some beaming, others looking slightly terrified. |
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For the Sligo Musical Society production, a magnificent cast of young men and women were auditioned to play the brides and brothers. |
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For the thousands of hijras who throng Koovakam dressed as brides for Aravan, theirs is a martyr's role. |
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For some brides, prenuptial nightmares are a normal part of the wedding preparation. |
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The brides looked resplendent in red shararas while the grooms were dressed in white sherwanis, long Indian coats, and laced caps. |
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The brides niece Ciara Cushen was a pretty flower girl and pageboy was Jamie Jackson. |
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Hackney cars in Ireland transported brides to weddings, infants to christenings and mourners to funerals. |
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Like a well-oiled machine, the organisers had collated details and created a database on the would-be grooms and brides. |
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Because of the dearth of wives, ling says that trafficking of child brides is epidemic. |
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Only a few Western brides have adopted mehndi as a wedding tradition, but many women use it as a fashion statement and a means of personal expression. |
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And while the congregation may have thought they were seeing double when the brides walked down the aisle in identical dresses, the brothers had no such problems. |
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I feel sorry for the old veterans who came with war brides and grandchildren to make their pilgrimage to the monument's opening this Memorial Day weekend. |
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It was customary for brides to do their hair up in a Shimada-style coiffure, so women stopped cutting their hair when it came about time to be getting married. |
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On that boulevard of the bagnios, she bought a small parlour house from Mattie Silks and began recruiting the most seductive brides of the multitudes. |
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She hopes that by April the Castle will be returning to normality and brides will walk down the staircase into the spectacular galleried Great Hall which is 80 ft high. |
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By the 1800s polite society began to place a premium on brides being virgins, and the Victorian ideal was that women should be chaste before marriage and modest afterwards. |
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Cattle were their wealth, the lobola with which men paid for brides. |
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Totally, I think it's affecting everyone, whether it's Instant news from loads of perspectives, paying your bills or mail order brides, it's bonkers! |
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Ten million girls every year leave education to become child brides, and millions more are trafficked. |
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Larger women often are favored as brides because they appear to come from a well-to-do family that can provide a significant dowry and seem strong enough to carry heavy loads. |
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White wedding gowns are still red-hot, but more adventurous brides are bringing in more colour to their gowns, wearing dresses with a tan or beige or pink hue. |
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When women refuse to be exchanged as war spoils, brides, or sacrifices, the system that was supposed to be cemented by these exchanges instead breaks down. |
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Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that allow minor girls to be child brides. |
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Thus it can be presumed that ancient Germanic brides were on average about twenty and were roughly the same age as their husbands. |
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This bride-gift, a kind of reverse dowry, indicates that grooms had to compete for relatively few brides. |
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In the 21st century, a tradition has developed whereby new brides at the church lay a bouquet of flowers on Mary's memorial. |
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In addition to providing an easy way for brides and grooms to plant trees, Bella Figura encourages customers to take action in other ways, too. |
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A rare alignment on the local lunar calendar led to Taizhou city centre being swamped in flower-covered cars bearing brides, grooms and families. |
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A HEARTLESS hotel boss reduced brides to tears by doubling wedding bills at the last minute then called them CHAVS for moaning. |
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They act as foundation garments and give brides confidence and a really great shape. |
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For those brides who want to offer even more, the truck can stock yummy goodies like Cracker Jacks and old-fashioned Lollipops. |
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The little minx has a gift for upstaging brides on their big day. |
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Now brides and grooms-to-be can rent a Popemobile to party in with pals before they tie the knot. |
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Here are some brides of ten compelled to seat themselves on the fascinum, the virile ivory in the temples of classical scholarship. |
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Eager to remarry, he began enquiring into the horoscopes of prospective brides. |
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Traditionally, grooms would promise to take their brides to Mnarja during the first year of marriage. |
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For luck, many of the brides would attend in their wedding gown and veil, although this custom has long since disappeared from the islands. |
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War brides brought from distant lands were also common in Cossack families. |
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Jenny Stewart, 84, and Jenny Dafoe, 88, left Crosshouse in Ayrshire as war brides in 1946 after both fell in love with Canadian soldiers called Walter. |
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Yet a small number of Lost Canadians such as some first generation children born abroad to war brides and service men were still not eligible for Canadian citizenship. |
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After the war a large number of Dutch immigrants moved to Canada, including a number of war brides of the Canadian soldiers who liberated the Low Countries. |
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Before, brides get kidnapped either because the boy's family was too poor to pay the bridewealth, or the girl's father did not consent to the marriage. |
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Some Indian reformers, such as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, even offered money to men who would take widows as brides, but these men often deserted their new wives. |
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In 2005 there were 51 brides aged between 16 and 19, compared to 8 grooms. |
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Frounce and frill reached a peak in the 80s with many brides copying the meringuelike voluptuousness characterised by Princess Diana's wedding frock. |
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