Traditionally they are quite ornate, though more contemporary designs are now being developed to cater to the modern bride.

In a version given in the Danish chronicle Gesta Danorum, the old warrior appears as Starkad, and he succeeded in making Ingeld divorce his bride and in turning him against her family.

* Leslie Parrish ( Ev Kester ), played roles as varied as Daisy Mae in Li ' l Abner ( 1959 ) and the doomed bride of the assassin in the 1962 film version of The Manchurian Candidate.

A number of cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding, in which a bride wears a white wedding dress and veil.

** In Orthodox and traditional Jewish weddings, the bride does not speak under the chuppah and only she receives a ring.

Very often, the bride will change into a traditional Chinese red wedding dress ( 鳳褂, or qípáo ) at that time, if she has been wearing a different style of clothing before.

He met Mary there-they were both " pale as death ", but found each other to their mutual liking-and Margaret took part in the traditional courtly games of love, telling Maximilian before the assembled nobility that his bride " had about her a carnation it behoved him to discover.

File: HinduBrideIndia. jpg | A bride during a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony in India.

Scáthach eventually promises her daughter to him, without requiring the traditional bride price.

Freud also noted that in ' numerous examples of marriage ceremonies there can be no doubt that people other than the bridegroom, for example his assistants and companions ( our traditional " groomsmen "), are granted full sexual access to the bride '.

Reflecting the traditional notion that the poem was written during Arnold's honeymoon ( see composition section ), one critic notes that " the speaker might be talking to his bride ".

A traditional, formal presentation of the bride price at a Thai engagement ceremony.

In traditional Chinese culture, an auspicious date is selected to Ti Qin ( literally meaning " propose marriage "), where both families will meet to discuss the amount of the bride price demanded, among other things.

In parts of Africa, a traditional marriage ceremony depends on payment of a bride price to be valid.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the visits between families to negotiate the bride price are traditional customs that are considered by many Africans to be central to African marriage and society.

: In the traditional Chinese marriage ceremony, both the bride and groom kneel in front of their parents and serve them tea.

In modern mainland Chinese weddings, the bride may opt for Western dresses of any color, and later don a traditional costume for the official tea ceremony.

In modern Taiwanese weddings, the bride generally picks red ( following Chinese tradition ) or white ( more Western ) silk for the wedding gown material, but most will wear the red traditional garment for their formal wedding banquets.

In Shetland, it is traditional to break a decorated shortbread cake over the head of a new bride on the entrance of her new house.

The event generally has a celebratory festival feel to it with the women dancing and singing traditional songs and the girls wearing vivid colors such as hot pink and yellow, often if the bride to be wishes to tease her future groom she will make him wear purple.

Shehnai is usually played at traditional North Indian weddings and is associated with the bride leaving her parental house for her husband's house.

In Gusii community traditional marriage was arranged by the parents who find an appropriate bride and kidnap her, both customary, civil and Christian marriage was allowed.

Eva dressed in traditional male formal attire and Eltinge played the blushing bride.

Though not shunga, it was traditional to present a bride with ukiyo-e depicting scenes from the Tale of Genji.

The song " Alus Jua Dindang " is also an important part of Bruneian wedding music ; in it, the groom ( who, in a traditional wedding does not know the bride beforehand ), flatters and declares his devotion to his new wife.

In the final scene of the film a bride passes down the country road in her traditional costume and Noriko's parents reflect on the impermanent nature of life.

In traditional Korean weddings, the bride also wears a decorative mark on the forehead and cheeks, with origins from Mongolia, but whether this practice has roots from India is not known.

... the maid of honor, Miss Annie Stephens, was as pretty as a French pastel, in a directoire costume of yellow satin with a long coat of green velvet sleeves, and a vest of gold brocade ... The bride was a fair vision of youthful loveliness in her robe of exquisite ivory white and satin ... her slippers were white satin wrought with pearls ... an elegant supper was served.

One of the more elegant kimonos is the uchikake, a long silk overgarment worn by the bride in a wedding ceremony.

His newlywed bride, Berenice, swore to the goddess Aphrodite to sacrifice her long, blonde hair, of which she was extremely proud, if her husband returned safely.

" means " long life and happiness to the bride and groom.

His bride was in Texas where long distance marriages are legal.

Unable to contain his passion for his new maiden with long, blond locks ( and broad shoulders ), as Þrymr approaches the bride by placing Mjölnir on " her " lap, Thor rips off his disguise and destroys Þrymr and his giant cohorts.

But, he was not with his new bride long before, at the end of 1914, the United Kingdom, and thus Canada along with it, had declared war on Germany.

The Dower ( bride price ), called mahr, and dowry, called jihar, are both customs with long histories in Pakistan.

Pulcheria saw in Eudocia the wife she wanted for her brother, "... Pulcheria felt that here was the bride she had long sought.

It is a tradition for a Japanese-American bride to fold a thousand origami cranes prior to her wedding for good luck and long life.

At Japanese weddings, it is customary for friends and relatives to offer " banzai " toasts to the bride and groom, wishing them long life.

The tune then briefly switches to the " Wedding March " by Mendelssohn, before finishing with Bugs carrying his ' bride ' up a long flight of stairs, through a false doorway ( opening up onto thin air ), and drops Fudd down into a wedding cake labeled " The Marriage of Figaro ".

The bridegroom worries about any doshas ( defects ) that the bride might have and prays to the gods Varuna, Brihaspati, Indra and Surya to remove every defect and to make her fit for harmonious and long marriage life blessed with progeny and happiness ( mantra: Rg 10. 85. 44 ).

He prays for long life, progeny, prosperity and harmony with the bride during their married life.

It is the music of the man walking the long miles to court a bride, or to meet with his Chief ; a means of transport.

At the point of marriage, the man moves in with the parents of the bride, and there they live until the birth of the couple ’ s third child, in part because it often takes the young man that long to gather up the resources needed for the construction of his own domicile.

:: Because the man approaches a brand-new bride he forgets the long faithful mother of his children.

He himself gives conflicting explanations, at one time telling his bride that his attraction to her made him long to stay in the world a while longer ("... perhaps your warmth and youth brought new insights of this world to me and turned my feet leaden on this side of the abyss "), while a few moments later telling the village matriarch that he thought the white man's intervention " might be the hand of the gods ".

His bride joins him, and the film ends with their embrace, Frankenstein's mind now being relieved of the awful horror and weight it has been laboring under for so long.

The bridegroom then returns home alone, but not long after that ( two weeks or so ) the bride arrives to take charge of her house.

In 1229 Peter-continuing his family tradition of seeking a bride in Catalonia-married Countess Aurembiaix of Urgell, who had long been exiled from Urgell by the ururper Guerau IV de Cabrera, and who had been James I's mistress.

During the wedding ceremony, the bridegroom ties the mangalsutra to the neck of the bride uttering-“ May you live long by wearing this sacred Mangalsutra, the reason of my life ”.

From the design of the armour of the recumbent figure of the effigy, it has been dated to around 1365, which was some long time after Sir William died but fits most closely with the dates of Sir Walter and his Royal bride.

The wedding featured a record 79 bridesmaids, a record 47 groomsmen, and a record 60. 09 m ( 197 ft 1 in ) long wedding bouquet, held by the bride.