The bride, daughter of Rhodes Semmes Baker Jr. of Houston and the late Mrs. Baker, was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a member of Mortar Board at Aj.

To propitiate Ares, Cadmus took as a bride Harmonia, daughter of Ares ' union with Aphrodite, thus harmonizing all strife and founding the city of Thebes.

Some myths state that in the end, Hera befriended Heracles for saving her from Porphyrion, a giant who tried to rape her during the Gigantomachy, and that she even gave her daughter Hebe as his bride.

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.

In the poem, the jötunn Þrymr mistakenly thinks that he will be receiving the goddess Freyja as his bride, and while telling his fellow jötunn to spread straw on the benches in preparation for the arrival of Freyja, he refers to her as the daughter of Njörðr of Nóatún.

Aegeus, one of the primordial kings of Athens, found a bride, Aethra who was the daughter of king Pittheus at Troezen, a small city southwest of Athens.

Afterward, feigning to be tired of her, and to have taken another wife, he turns her out of doors in her shift, and brings his daughter into the house in guise of his bride ; but, finding her patient under it all, he brings her home again, and shows her children, now grown up, and honours her, and causes her to be honoured, as Marchioness.

The bride was Gytha, daughter of the courtier Osgod Clapa.

Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees.

In The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne – one of the most famous stories of the cycle – the High King Cormac mac Airt promises the now aging Fionn his daughter Gráinne as his bride, but Gráinne falls instead for one of the Fianna, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and the pair runs away together with Fionn in pursuit.

On his journey, he crossed into the county of Hainaut to inspect the daughters of Count William of Hainaut, in order to determine which daughter would be the most suitable as an eventual bride for Prince Edward.

The other was his nephew's fiancée, the daughter of Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, who was taken as a bride by the queen's son, Thomas Grey, with Edward's approval.

This bride-price was usually then handed over by her father to the bride upon her marriage, and so returned into the bridegroom's possession, along with her dowry, which was her portion of the family's inheritance as a daughter.

For her own part, Margaret's family were far more powerful and secure than they had been in 1454: her father had been killed at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, but her brother was now Edward IV, opposed ineffectively only by Margaret of Anjou and her son, Edward of Westminster ; this made Margaret a far more valuable bride than she had been as the mere daughter of a Duke.

There was a fourth figure, Elektra's daughter, Harmonia, whom Cadmus took away as a bride, as Zeus had abducted Europa.

Pindar even urges his hearers to " Praise the sea maid, daughter of Aphrodite, bride of Helios, this isle of Rhodes.

With his wife Kleopatra, daughter of Idas and Marpessa, he had a daughter, Polydora, who became the bride of Protesilaus, who left her bed on their wedding-night to join the expedition to Troy.

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

His bride was Mary Crowninshield Endicott, daughter of the US Secretary for War, William Crowninshield Endicott.

Their servant Lauamatoto ascends to heaven in order to find a bride suitable for Tafa ' i. He convinces the goddess Sina-tae-o-i-lagi, daughter of Tagaloa-lagi, to give an audience to the Tafa ' i and his brother, who disguise themselves as ugly old men in order to reach her court safely.

In 1803, Patterson's daughter Elizabeth Patterson married Napoléon Bonaparte's brother Jérôme, but when she arrived in Europe as Jérôme's bride, Napoléon refused to let Betsy Patterson Bonaparte set foot on land.

He and his bride, Sarah Holderby, a daughter of Joseph Holderby of the northern part of the county, moved into the frame house Reuben Reid had built across from his store.

The preparation of the " paja " for the parents of the bride is a pleasure which means also accomplishing the obligations toward the daughter.

Robert Corbett, a logging and lumbering entrepreneur, held the dominant influence on city in its early years, first renamed as " Corbett ", then to " Warner " in 1891, and then to the present name on July 1, 1900, after the bride of Charles R. Smith, head of the Menasha Wooden Ware Co.

Following the restoration of the Portuguese Royal House, and her father's accession to the throne on 1 December 1640, she was proposed as a bride for John of Austria, François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, Louis XIV and Charles II, She was seen as a useful conduit for contracting an alliance between Portugal and England, after the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in which Portugal was arguably abandoned by France.

The most recent King to wed post-coronation, Charles II, did not have a separate coronation for his bride, Catherine of Braganza.

Wilhelm picked out Charles Edward's bride for him, his niece and on 11 October 1905, at Glücksburg Castle, Schleswig-Holstein, the Duke married Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein ( 31 December 1885 – 3 October 1970 ), the daughter of Duke Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Charles Patterson, in a 1954 essay, explains that " It is erroneous to assume that here Keats is merely disparaging the bride of flesh wed to man and glorifying the bride of marble wed to quietness.

When Prince Philip told him that the intrusive media attention would injure her reputation if he did not come to a decision about marrying her soon, and realising that Lady Diana met the Mountbatten criteria ( and, apparently, the public's ) for a proper royal bride, Charles construed his father's advice as a warning to proceed without further delay, and proposed marriage.

Although Austria made diplomatic protests, claiming that the marriage was illegal because the bride was unwilling, that she was already legally married to Maximilian, and that Charles was legally betrothed to Margaret of Austria, Maximilian's daughter, Anne celebrated her second wedding to Charles VIII at the castle of Langeais on 6 December 1491.

Much of his output reflected an often overlooked function of artists of the time: the ephemeral festive decorations erected to celebrate special occasions in the court circle, for example, the decorations for the triumphal entry into Paris staged for Charles IX and his bride Elisabeth of Austria in 1571.

These monumental tasks proved too much for Gibbons, who died of a stroke in Canterbury, where Charles was supposed to meet his future bride, Henrietta Maria of France, placing an even greater strain on Tomkins.

With new responsibilities he and his bride returned to Louisiana in 1776 and settled in St. Charles Parish to live the life of a country gentleman and his lady.

In 1680, after bringing home Charles XI's Danish bride from Copenhagen, he was appointed governor-general of Scania ( Skåne ), but died a few weeks later.

Anne also oversaw the education of Margaret of Austria, who had been intended as a bride for Anne's brother Charles.

She was born on 8 July 1647 in exile in Paris, but was sent to England in 1663 after the restoration by Charles I's widow Henrietta Maria to act as maid of honour at Charles II's wedding and subsequently as lady-in-waiting to his new bride, Catherine of Braganza.

Meanwhile, Charles, who has a policy of not working for married couples, takes a new job with Rawlins, who was jilted by his bride.

The first of these, After the Wedding ( Drexel University Art Collection, 1880 ), showed the artist's brother Charles and his bride Mae, daughter of financier Anthony J. Drexel, leaving for their honeymoon.

In 1598, aged 20, he was in Central Europe as an ambassador with a mandate to travel and bring back to Spain the 13-14 year old orphaned bride Margaret of Austria ( daughter of Archduke Charles II of Austria and Maria Anna of Bavaria ), the first, and unique, wife of king Philip III of Spain, being awarded the title of marquis of Guadalcázar, in 1609.

A few of the notable earlier residents of Wilshire Park include popular star of the silent movie era Mildred Harris ( who became notorious as the 16-year-old child bride of Charles Chaplin ), headline-making Ziegfeld beauty and screen actress Helen Lee Worthing who appeared with John Barrymore in the film Don Juan, motion picture star Tom Mix, an executive secretary to 29th U. S. President Warren G. Harding, a CEO of finance for the City of Los Angeles, the director of the Los Angeles County Hospital, the performer Ziegfeld Follies, RKO Studios dance director / choreographer Pearl Eaton, and motion picture director and an Academy Awards co-founder, Henry King.

A deft, hilarious satire on very high French society involving a statesman with two enviable possessions, a lovely young bride and a head containing such weighty thoughts that he has occasionally to remove it for greater comfort.

In two different groups, and with opposite expression, the sculptor has represented Cupid with his bride ; in the one they are standing, in the other recumbent.

John's theology of chastity has been replaced by the editor's theology of outright celibacy, which makes little sense when John's true church is symbolised as a bride of the Lamb.

Set eighty years after the defeat of the Sword Rulers, Corum has become despondent and alone since the death of his Mabden bride Rhalina.

Writes gender studies author Elizabeth Young: " He has no innate understanding that the male-female bond he is to forge with the bride is assumed to be the primary one or that it carries a different sexual valence from his relationships with and the hermit: all affective relationships are as easily ' friendships ' as ' marriages '.

The Greek word has " bride " and " veiled " among its meanings: hence a marriageable young woman.

Peleus makes off with his prize bride Thetis, who has vainly assumed animal forms to escape him: Boeotia n black-figure dish, ca.

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.

Neither the bride nor any children of the marriage has a claim on the bridegroom's succession rights, titles, precedence, or entailed property.

Alternatively, the bonded male has the option of rejecting his intended bride and choosing another.

In act 4, scene 14, “ an un-Romaned Antony ” laments, “ O, thy vile lady !/ She has robb'd me of my sword ,” ( 22-23 )— critic Arthur L. Little Jr. writes that here “ he seems to echo closely the victim of raptus, of bride theft, who has lost the sword she wishes to turn against herself.

In his portrait of Southey, in The Spirit of the Age, he wrote: " He wooed Liberty as a youthful lover, but it was perhaps more as a mistress than a bride ; and he has since wedded with an elderly and not very reputable lady, called Legitimacy.

Heracles is moved to tears by Meleager's account ; Meleager has left his sister Deianira unwedded in his father's house, and entreats Heracles to take her as bride ; here Bacchylides breaks off his account of the meeting, without noting that in this way Heracles in the Underworld chooses a disastrous wife.

Once the bride has been led home, " the god Domitius is employed to install her in her house.

Hogni asks her what she means, and she responds that he no bride, yet Hogni has a noble wife.

* The Eastern Orthodox marriage service has a section called the crowning, wherein the bride and groom are crowned as " king " and " queen " of their future household.

All of these similar tales of abduction by another suitor – and this allegory includes Lancelot, who whisks her away when she is condemned to burn at the stake for their adultery – are demonstrative of a recurring Hades-snatches-Persephone theme, positing that Guinevere is like the otherworld bride Étaín, who Midir, king of the Underworld, carries off from her earthly life after she has forgotten her past.

It has been rumored that on April 8, 1933, Wyman married Ernest Eugene Wyman ( or Weymann ) ( 1906 – 1970 ), a salesman ; the marriage was mentioned in Dutch, the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris, who says that the marriage certificate is on file with the State of California, with the bride giving her name as Jane Fulks, daughter of Richard D. and Emma Reise Fulks.

Dance has its place in ceremonial customs that are still preserved in Greek villages, such as dancing the bride during a wedding and dancing the trousseau of the bride during the wedding preparations.

As the romance tours industry has grown, there have been an increasingly higher number of success stories, such as that of Ukrainian mail order bride Lera Loeb.

The dialog between the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has its analogies to the Norse Þrymskviða from the Elder Edda ; the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölner, Thor's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return.

In anthropological literature, bride price has often been explained in market terms, as payment made in exchange for the bride's family's loss of her labor and fertility within her kin group.