The events speak much more to the mothers than to the bride and groom.
For instance, both Hindu and Jewish traditions marry a bride and groom under a structure.
Expect to work right through to the last photograph of just the bride and groom.
If you are lucky, you will hear "Elvis" serenade the bride and groom.
Members of marrying families will give gifts not only to the bride and groom, but all their new in laws.
The artist says the bride and groom "looked really naive and natural, like a child's fantasy of a bride and groom".
But then the bride and groom were there, a young black couple in separate windows at the top of the screen.
Usually it means that it is now culturally acceptable for the bride and groom to go out in public, talk on the phone, etc.
The pictures were taken in Buckingham Palace's throne room immediately after the bride and groom arrived from their marriage service at Westminster Abbey on Friday.
Lipi's work includes a series of bras made from razor blades and a two-channel video called "I Wed Myself, " in which the artist appears as both bride and groom.
One proposed feature of the ceremony: When it is time for the big kiss, the bride and groom can each chomp on the end of a french fry until their lips meet.
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"I didn't go around a fire on my wedding day, " says one young Uzbek man, referring to the pre-Islamic wedding ritual the bride and groom are required to perform on their wedding night.
An ordained minister, he had officiated at Lucy Stone's wedding, and after reading from a statement prepared by the bride and groom, he distributed it to fellow clergymen as a manual of marital parity.
The chance of marriage success is related to the amount of time a couple has dated (strike one against Billy Bob) and is influenced by the age of the bride and groom (strike two: Angelina was 24 when they married).
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From a church whose acoustics are meant to have the likeness of "singing in a violin, " to a chapel that literally and metaphorically unites a bride and groom in marriage, the buildings featured in the gallery above, challenge design notions of sacred spaces.
Peggy Post disagrees with putting a price limit on a wedding gift ("There's no such thing as a dollar amount, " she says), but she does suggest basing the amount you spend on your affection for the bride and groom and their family.
Traditionally, wedding insurance only covers situations that are out of the bride's and groom's control.
Not an ex of the bride or groom and preferably not someone who is not on the guest list for a reason.
In the coming weeks, voters will decide on the rings, the bride's and bridesmaids' dresses, the groom's tuxedo, the cake and even hair and makeup.
The bride's father is from New Zealand, and the groom is a sixth generation Southerner, so the couple wanted to honor each of their cultures without alienating anyone.
Later someone told me that the groom had paid a bride price of ten camels and twenty goats for his mystery woman, a figure that was considered dangerously inflationary.
In India, paying and accepting a dowry - a centuries-old tradition where the bride's parents present gifts of cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family - has been illegal since 1961.
No moneylender in his right mind would, at any rate of interest, advance a sufficient sum to buy the necessary items for each daughter: beds, a dresser, trunks, electric fans, dishes, six suits of clothes for the groom, six for the bride, perhaps a television, and on and on and on.
Mr. Longueuil, wearing a blue blazer, light blue tie and khakis matching the groom, stood behind Mr. Freeman, smiling as the bride walked down the aisle.
The bride had light-brown hair and freckles on a wide, open, pale face, and the groom was in uniform.
The groom said his bride-to-be had been reduced to tears on several occasions throughout the day and he had tried to comfort her as best as he could.
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