Eleanor's grandfather, William IX of Aquitaine, gave her this rock crystal vase, which she in turn gave to Louis as a wedding gift.

He gave Marion the world's first portable radio as a wedding gift.

Infuriated with Jason for breaking his vow that he would be hers forever, Medea took her revenge by presenting to Creusa a cursed dress, as a wedding gift, that stuck to her body and burned her to death as soon as she put it on.

Mark Antony supposedly gave Cleopatra over 200, 000 scrolls ( taken from the great Library of Pergamum ) for the library as a wedding gift, but this is regarded by some historians as a propagandist claim meant to show Antony's allegiance to Egypt rather than Rome.

In 929 the city went to Edward the Elder's daughter Edith, through her marriage to Henry's son Otto I, as a Morgengabe — a Germanic customary gift received by the new bride from the groom and his family after the wedding night.

Interpretations of the portrayals have included that of a marine setting ( due to the presence of a ketos or sea-snake ), and of a marriage theme / context ( i. e. as a wedding gift ).

Richard proposed that his sister, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, should marry Saladin's brother and that Jerusalem could be their wedding gift.

Edison moved from Menlo Park after the death of Mary Stilwell and purchased a home known as " Glenmont " in 1886 as a wedding gift for Mina in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey.

Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, " Glenmont " in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey, which he had purchased in 1886 as a wedding gift for Mina.

Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift ( offering, ring ( s ), symbolic item, flowers, money ), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or leader.

Unless the wedding couple has a wedding registry, it is best not to give gifts or gift certificates.

Also, similar to his father's gold medals in rowing at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics, he competed in the sport at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where, on November 27, seven months after his sister's Monaco wedding, he won a bronze medal, which he gave to her as a gift of the occasion.

In 1628, Tokugawa Iemitsu's daughter had a set of lacquer boxes made for her wedding ; Prince Toshitada received a pair of silk genji-e screens, painted by Kanō Tan ' yū as a wedding gift in 1649.

In 1874, with Sherman having become world famous, their eldest child, Marie Ewing (" Minnie ") Sherman, also had a politically prominent wedding, attended by President Ulysses S. Grant and commemorated by a generous gift from the Khedive of Egypt.

Morganatic, already in use in English by 1727 ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ), is derived from the medieval Latin morganaticus from the Late Latin phrase matrimonium ad morganaticam and refers to the gift given by the groom to the bride on the morning after the wedding, morning gift, i. e. dower.

Their wedding was commemorated by the gift of a Book of Hours.

Marie-Thérèse even sold a diamond necklace that the Emperor Paul had given her as a wedding gift.

The groom's maternal grandfather, William Patterson, one of the wealthiest men in Maryland, gave the couple a mansion ( now Montrose Mansion ) as a wedding gift in an attempt to match the bride's dowery.

In this tale Inanna's lover, the shepherd-king Dumuzi, brought a wedding gift of milk in pails, yoked across his shoulders.

Still attractive in her forties, Victor Amadeus had long been in love with her and as a wedding gift, created her the Marchioness of Spigno.

It had been five days too late before he learned that she'd gone through the wedding ceremony in a semitrance of laudanum, administered by her mother.

`` Diane is the type of girl '', Jelke said, `` who wouldn't get loving -- even on her wedding night -- unless you piled up all your money in the middle of the floor ''.

I didn't see her till several days later at the wedding, and her face looked like it had never had a blemish on it.

The Richard S. Burkes' home in Wayne may be the setting for the wedding reception for their daughter, Helen Lambert, and the young Italian she met last year while studying in Florence during her junior year at Smith college.

The only man alive who seems qualified by his learning, his disposition and his addiction to a baroque luxuriance of language to inherit the literary mantle of Sacheverell Sitwell, Mr. Sansom writes of foreign parts with a dedication to decoration worthy of a pastry chef creating a wedding cake for the marriage of a Hungarian beauty ( her third ) and an American multimillionaire ( his fourth ).

A Serene Highness by birth, Ena, as she was known, was raised to Royal Highness status a month before her wedding to prevent the union from being viewed as unequal.

Nora leaves her keys and wedding ring and as Torvald breaks down and begins to cry, baffled by what has happened, Nora leaves the house, slamming the door behind herself.

Bardot also brought into fashion the choucroute (" Sauerkraut ") hairstyle ( a sort of beehive hair style ) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.

Years later, Longshanks grants his noblemen land and privileges in Scotland, including Primae Noctis, the right of the lord to take a newly married Scottish woman into his bed on her wedding night.

Later, Lo interrupts Jen's wedding procession, begging her to come away with him.

Then there is Jen, the young woman at the verge of her wedding is still wavering, battling between her desire to be accepted and respected by her family and society and her wish to be free.

At the wedding in Cana, he bows to her wishes.

On June 6, 2012 her wedding picture was featured on the cover of People magazine.

In her wedding procession, she arrived to Poland with Christian clergymen, among them possibly Jordan, the first Bishop of Poland ( since 968 ).

The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.

At this wedding, Charles meets Carrie for the first time and spends the night with her.

Charles is happy to discover that Carrie is attending the wedding, until she introduces him to her fiancé, Sir Hamish Banks ( Corin Redgrave ), a wealthy politician from Scotland.

While shopping for a present in London he accidentally bumps into Carrie in a shop and ends up helping her select her wedding dress.

Rachel arrives at Central Perk after running away from her wedding to her fiancé Barry and moves into her best friend from high school's ( Monica ’ s ) apartment with her.

Bixby's father died of a heart attack in 1971, a month before Bill's first wedding.

Storylines in the early part of the decade included: the death of newborn Katie McDonald in 1992, Mike Baldwin's wedding to Alma Sedgewick ( Amanda Barrie ) in 1992, Tommy Duckworth being sold by his father Terry in 1993, Deirdre Barlow's marriage to Moroccan Samir Rachid, and the rise of Tanya Pooley ( Eva Pope ) between 1993 and 1994.

Although a gala wedding was planned for Fort Riley, Kansas, the death of Stuart's father on September 20 caused a change of plans and the marriage on November 14 was small and limited to family witnesses.

As a wedding present, Mudd's father gave the couple of his best farmland, known as St. Catherine ’ s, and a new house.

After planning and coordinating another successful wedding ceremony, San Francisco wedding planner Mary ( Jennifer Lopez ) is re-introduced to childhood acquaintance Massimo ( Justin Chambers ) by her father ( Alex Rocco ) who wants the two of them to marry.

At home, Mary ’ s father excitedly talks about her upcoming wedding, only for her to reveal that she and Massimo are not engaged before scolding her father for trying to arrange her marriage.

Her father then reveals that his wedding with her mother, which Mary had always seen as the perfect marriage, was actually arranged and only became a loving relationship months later, leaving Mary feeling very confused.

At the town hall, Massimo and Mary prepare to marry but her father stops the ceremony, realising that the wedding is what he wants for her and not what she wants.

However, in true Viz style, the wedding featured a lecherous groom marrying his pregnant ( and significantly underaged ) girlfriend, eyeing up her younger sister while being called a " cradle-snatching cunt " by her father ( with the resulting fight prompting the bride's mother to cry out " less it, for fuck's sake " before the police arrived ).

Florence's father was incensed by his daughter's decision to marry Harding, prohibited his wife from attending the wedding ( she sneaked in long enough to see the vows exchanged ) and refused to speak to his daughter or son-in-law for eight years.

The Yorks were perceived by the public as an ideal family: father, mother and children, but unfounded rumours that Margaret was deaf and dumb were not completely dispelled until Margaret's first main public appearance at her uncle Prince George's wedding in 1934.

After the full conclusion of the wedding ceremony, either the bride's father lifts the veil giving the bride to the groom who then kisses her, or the new groom lifts her face veil in order to kiss her, which symbolizes the groom's right to enter into conjugal relations with his bride.

Tiberius Claudius Nero was present at the wedding, giving her in marriage " just as a father would.

During the wedding feast at the court of Hyfaidd Hen, Rhiannon's father, Gwawl enters and is described as " a large, noble, brown-haired fellow ... wearing silk brocade.

After seeking permission to marry from Finnegan's father, and delaying their wedding when Collins was redeployed to West Germany during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, they married in the summer of 1957.

Approval for the marriage was granted by the Dutch parliament ( necessary by law for the Prince of Orange to remain heir to the throne ), but Máxima's father chose not to attend the wedding.

Miller's father was best man at Paul's 1949 wedding to Mary Ford.

It was announced in 1999, at the time of the wedding of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex that he would follow his father as Duke of Edinburgh.

Anatole was raised to the station of Prince by Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany shortly before the wedding to fulfill the wishes of Mathilde's father and to preserve Mathilde's station as Princess.

It falls on Buzzy's father ( Jack Kelly ) to have a man-to-man talk with his son on the latter's wedding night and tell him all there is to know about the birds and the bees.

Not far from Irkutsk, he received notice of the start of war with the Empire of Japan and hastily summoned his bride and her father to Siberia by telegram for a wedding before heading directly to Port Arthur.

He later told an interviewer that his father had " received it as a wedding present from his bride.