From left to right: King Farouk of Egypt ( the bride's brother ), Princess Fawzia ( the bride ) and the Crown Prince of Iran ( the groom ).

Howard's brother Clint Howard can be seen as a wedding guest, identified by Candy's character as the bride's brother and yelled at by Hanks.

The bride's sister Margaret and brother Alexander were bridesmaid and best man.

After a long courtship, Millard, aged 26, and Abigail, aged 27, were married on February 5, 1826, by the Reverend Orasius H. Smith at the home of the bride's brother Judge Powers in Moravia, New York.

Witnesses to the marriage were the bride's brother Cornelius Vinck and Jacob Ruisdael.

Only six other people were present at the Earl's country house at Wanstead, Essex ; among these were the bride's father and brother, Francis and Richard Knollys, the bridegroom's brother, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, and his two friends, the Earl of Pembroke and Lord North.

" Zigenarvän " was the biggest hit, but its overly romantic lyrics about a young girl attending a Gypsy wedding and falling in love with the bride's brother became the source of controversy.

Also present will be the bride's children, Joan, 13, and Kirkland, 11.

Because of the recent death of the bride's father, Frederick B. Hamm, the marriage of Miss Terry Hamm to John Bruce Parichy will be a small one at noon tomorrow in St. Bernadine's church, Forest Park.

Mr. and Mrs. Stevens and the bride's other uncles and aunts, the Rush C. Butlers, the Homer E. Robertsons, and the David Q. Porters, will give the bridal dinner tonight in the Stevenses' home.

This meaning survived into the early nineteenth century: during a case heard in London in 1824 regarding the legal validity of a marriage ceremony consisting of nothing more than the groom placing a ring on the bride's finger before witnesses, a court official commented that the ceremony " amounted to nothing more than a broomstick marriage, which the parties had it in their power to dissolve at will.

Until then The Prince Edward will be Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn, the latter title reflecting his bride's Welsh origins.

The groom and a matchmaker will visit the bride's family bearing gifts like wedding cakes, sweetmeats and jewelry, as well as the bride price.

On the actual wedding day, the bride's family will return a portion of the bride price ( sometimes in the form of dowry ) as a goodwill gesture.

Sometimes a prospective groom will work in the bride's family's household to earn the right to marry her.

After graduation, he falls in love with a girl, but will be rejected by the bride's parents, since his horoscope describes him as a manglik, a condition in which a manglik can only marry another manglik and if not, the non-manglik will die.

The next day, the bride's aunt will determine if the girl is a virgin, and then bathe and massage her.

If they agree they will advise him of the customs to ask the bride's family and then accompany him to the place she lives.

Anne's paternal uncle, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, issued a statement objecting to any marriage conducted against the will of the Pope and the bride's family.

The groom would give a gift of horses to the bride's parents, while they in turn would give a gift to the groom.

The bride's father does not give an answer immediately, but then asks the village for its opinion.

Michael's spokesman declared on 9 June that the parents had been asked and had given their consent, and that the bride's family would be represented at the nuptials by her maternal uncle, Prince Eric of Denmark, who was to give the bride away.

A bride-price is paid according to their wealth, and the bride's parents also give a present equal to about half this amount to dispel the idea that they're selling their daughter.

The dining room was decked in white and green, illuminated with numberless candles in silver candlelabras ... The bride's gift from her father was an elegant house and lot ... At 11 o ' clock Mrs. Mitchell donned a pretty going-away gown of green English cloth with its jaunty velvet hat to match and bid goodbye to her friends.

Initially agreement had been reached for him to marry Margaret of Geneva, daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, but the young bride's journey to Paris was interrupted by Thomas I of Savoy, who kidnapped Philip's intended new queen and married her instead, claiming that Philip was already bound in marriage.

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 ).

Then the groom marks the bride's forehead with vermilion ( sindoor ) and puts a gold necklace ( mangalsutra ) around her neck.

The bride's silence and acceptance of the ring signify her agreement to the marriage.

* Maid, Matron or Man of Honor: The title and position held by a bride's chief attendant, typically her closest friend or sibling.

This is the essence of the Veddha marriage and is symbolic of the bride's acceptance of the man as her mate and life partner.

Similarly, the groom tosses the bride's garter to the single men, often after removing it from her leg.

His marriage to the widowed Lady Grey took place secretly and though the date is not accepted as exactly accurate is traditionally said to have taken place ( with only the bride's mother and two ladies in attendance ) at her family home in Northamptonshire on 1 May 1464, just over three years after he had taken the English throne subsequent to leading the Yorkists in an overwhelming victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton.

As Song society became more and more prosperous and parents on the bride's side of the family provided larger dowries for her marriage, women naturally gained many new legal rights in ownership of property.

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.

The groom places the veil over the bride's face, and either he or the officiating Rabbi gives her a blessing.

By the terms of the marriage contract, Margaret retained her rights to the English throne, and her dowry was promised to Burgundy even if she died within the first year ( often, the dowry would return to the bride's family under such circumstances ).

Some cultures require proof of a bride's virginity prior to her marriage.

The marriage was celebrated following lengthy negotiations with her divorced parents: her mother was desperate to see her daughter a Duchess, and the bride's father, William Vanderbilt paid for the privilege.

The rite of the bride's oiling the posts of the door of her new home with wolf fat at her arrival, though not mentioning Janus explicitly, is a rite of passage related to the ianua.

The tradition of chewing areca nuts starts the talk between the groom's parents and the bride's parents about the young couple's marriage.

Now rare, it is also known as a left-handed marriage because in the wedding ceremony the groom traditionally held his bride's right hand with his left hand instead of his right.

In the matriarchal system of the Siraya, it was also necessary for couples to abstain from marriage until their mid-thirties, when the bride's father would be in his declining years and would not pose a challenge to the new male member of the household.

The marriage of young people was usually arranged between their relatives — the groom's father providing the bride-price, which, with other gifts, the suitor ceremonially presented to the bride's father.

Some states, such as New York, allow married couples to adopt a new surname upon marriage, which may be a hyphenated form of the bride's and groom's names, a combination of parts of their family names, or any new family name they can agree upon adopting as the married name.

The tradition of a veiled bride's face continues even today wherein, a virgin bride, especially in Christian or Jewish culture, enters the marriage ritual with a veiled face and head, and remains fully veiled, both head and face, until the ceremony concludes.

Because he was deaf-mute, the marriage shocked his mother, infuriated his sister-in-law Olympia Mancini, injured the inheritance prospects of his French nephews and nieces, and so offended Louis XIV that Francis II, Duke of Modena felt obliged to banish from his realm the bride's kinsman, who had acted as the couple's intermediary.

Because he was deaf-mute, the marriage shocked his mother, infuriated his sister-in-law Olympia Mancini, injured the inheritance prospects of his French nephews and nieces, and so offended Louis XIV that Francis II, Duke of Modena felt obliged to banish from his realm the bride's kinsman, who had acted as the couple's intermediary.

By the same measure, departing in this from the policy of the Eastern Empire, Majorian insisted that a marriage without dowry and pre-wedding gifts trade ( the first from the bride's family to the groom, the latter in the opposite direction ) was invalid ; simultaneously ended the practice of requesting pre-wedding gifts of a value considerably higher than the dowry.

Traditionally, Roman marriages included a ritual where the bride's hair was cut or parted with a spear-some see this as the result of Juno's association with marriage, although other explanations for the ritual are given as well.

The marriage triggered significant controversy due to the bride's father's prior role in the Argentinian military dictatorship.

It is possible that the Homeric " bride-price " is part of a reciprocal exchange of gifts between the prospective husband and the bride's father, but while gift exchange is a fundamental practice of aristocratic friendship and hospitality, it occurs rarely, if at all, in connection with marriage arrangements.

It contrasts with bride price, which is paid by the groom or his family to the bride's parents, and with dower, which is property given to the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage.