She gave Louis a wedding present that is still in existence, a rock crystal vase, currently on display at the Louvre.

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

The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, that Peter has bought for her as a wedding present.

The library at Pergamom was believed to contain 200, 000 volumes, which Mark Antony later gave to Cleopatra as a wedding present.

At least until the beginning of the 20th century it was a Hindu custom to present a completely new, undrilled pearl and pierce it during the wedding ceremony.

Within the conservation area is a cottage that was given to Queen Charlotte as a wedding present on her marriage to George III.

* The couple spend their first moments as man and wife in seclusion ( apart from the wedding guests, and with no other person present ).

As a wedding present, Poseidon gave Peleus two immortal horses: Balius and Xanthus.

As a wedding present, Colin Tennant ( later the 3rd Baron Glenconner ) gave her a plot of land on his private Caribbean island, Mustique.

The plane he " owns " is not a " wedding present ," but Crown property.

Prince Philip, husband of the present Queen, was created Duke of Edinburgh and granted the style Royal Highness the day before his wedding ( which occurred prior to her accession ).

The Churchills were invited to this wedding and sent a book as a wedding present.

Aware that all band members were present, the wedding guests pressured the trio into playing, and they performed " Roxanne " and " Message in a Bottle ".

* Cleopatra Selene marries Juba II of Numidia, and as a wedding present Augustus makes her queen of Mauretania in her own right.

He later discoveres that Solo's ancestor was merely " a pretender to the throne ", but is present at Han and Leia's wedding.

Often in modern weddings, the ceremony of removing a face veil after the wedding to present the groom with a virgin bride is skipped, since many couples have already entered into conjugal relations prior to their wedding day – the bride either wears no face veil, or it is lifted before the ceremony begins, but this is not always the case.

When Eleanor of Aquitaine, William IX's granddaughter, married King Louis VII of France in 1137, she gave him the rock crystal vase as a wedding present.

Furthermore, the couple received Marselisborg Palace in Aarhus as a wedding present from the people of Denmark in 1898.

As a wedding present, Burroughs included a clause in his next contract that stated that Pierce must play Tarzan.

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

Gradually, Lina learns that Johnnie has continued to gamble on the horses, despite his promise to quit, and that he has sold family heirloom chairs given to them as a wedding present to help pay for things.

At the wedding, whether celebrated at Samothrace or at Thebes, all the gods were present ; Harmonia received as bridal gifts a peplos worked by Athena and a necklace made by Hephaestus.

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.

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.

As a wedding gift, her father gave the couple six slaves and the Pine Slash Farm near Mechanicsville.

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.