Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

`` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs. Calhoun and the mother of the bride went out to his house and fought it out beside his bed.

She'd be sure to remember any bride who was vague about background.

There was a marked contrast in the amount of information on bride and groom.

The one line on the bride said she was Miss Lisa Carmody from Baton Rouge.

Dr. W. B. I. Martin officiated, and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

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.

The bride was given in marriage by her father.

Dan Beam presented music and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

It was as blissful and fulfilling a night as any bride ever experienced.

I was practically a bride, after all.

He had loved and lost Vivian Wayne to somebody else, had watched her marry the somebody else, and had caught a bear of a cold by kissing the bride good-by forever, which was really piling it on.

Some historians speculate that it was his conservative powerbase's disapproval of his foreign, non-Orthodox bride, more so than her appearance, that caused Alexei to spurn Charlotte.

The choice of The Marriage of Figaro was considered improper for a new bride by many observers, and the couple left the opera theater early without seeing the entire work performed.

Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be " a true and loving husband " and told his parents that he was immensely happy to " behold the face of his lovely bride ".

Once married, Arthur was sent to Ludlow Castle on the borders of Wales to preside over the Council of Wales and the Marches, as was his duty as Prince of Wales, and his bride accompanied him.

Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.

" It also found that Cosmas confuses Dobrawa with Mieszko I's second wife Oda, who at the time of her marriage was around 19 – 25 years old, a relatively advanced age for a bride according to the customs of the Middle Ages.

The King, however, was madly in love with his beautiful and worldly bride and granted her every whim, even though her behavior baffled and vexed him no end.

Derby had promised Oxford his new bride would have £ 1, 000 a year, but the financial provision for her was slow in materializing.

He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell ' arte style to France.

One very notable social renegade was an aristocratic descendant of the Gracchi, infamous for his marriage ( as a bride ) to a male horn player.

In myth and cult, fragmentary references and archaic practices remain of the sacred marriage of Hera and Zeus, and at Plataea, there was a sculpture of Hera seated as a bride by Callimachus, as well as the matronly standing Hera.

The young boy-king is probably the same Seleucus who later went to marry a Ptolemaic princess called Berenice IV ( a sister of the famous Cleopatra VII of Egypt ) but allegedly was murdered by the discontented bride for his lack of manners.

In Japan origami butterflies were used during the celebration of Shinto weddings to represent the bride and groom, so ceremonial paperfolding had probably already become a significant aspect of Japanese ceremony by the Heian period ( 794 – 1185 ) of Japanese history.

It was probably used in the ritual sprinkling of the bride with water before the wedding.

" It is normal procedure for a priest to ask the prospective bride and groom about their plans to have children before officiating at their wedding.

The edhilingui were worth 1, 440 solidi, or about 700 head of cattle, the highest wergild on the continent ; the price of a bride was also very high.

Harthacnut presumably consumed large quanties of alcohol, as he was drinking to the health of the bride — he " died as he stood at his drink, and he suddenly fell to the earth with an awful convulsion ; and those who were close by took hold of him, and he spoke no word afterwards …" The likely cause of death was a stroke, " brought about by an excessive intake of alcohol " In The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England ( 2000 ), Clifford Brewer suggested a cardiac arrest as the immediate cause of death.

In his diary, Malmesbury recorded his reservations about Caroline's suitability as a bride for the prince: she lacked judgment, decorum and tact, spoke her mind too readily, acted indiscreetly, and often neglected to wash, or change her dirty clothes.

This privilege was first extended about 1817 by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, to his friend, Lieut General James Moore, K. C., and his new bride, Miss Cecilia Watson.

When William II died on 2 August 1100, Robert was on his return journey from the Crusade and was about to marry a wealthy young bride to raise funds to buy back his duchy.

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.

Procris then conceived doubts about her husband, who left his bride at the bridal chamber and climbed to a mountaintop and sang a hymn invoking Nephele, " cloud ".

In the Iliad, Achilles loves Briseis ( and Briseis was said to love him back ), comparing their relationship with that of man and wife ( he refers to her as his bride and wife often ) and explicitly to that of Menelaus and Helen, which was, after all, what the war is about.

A bride is a woman about to be married or newlywed.

At about the same time Eugen Neuhaus, a German painter, arrived in Pacific Grove with his new bride.

Songs by these and other artists have been written about Fremantle ; the city is the setting for the title track of Paul Kelly's 1987 album Under the Sun, and The Waifs ' 2004 single " Bridal Train " follows a World War II-era war bride on a journey from Fremantle to the USA.

Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be " a true and loving husband " and he later told his parents that he was immensely happy to behold the face of his lovely bride.

She originally planned to write a story about a girl who is in love with her piano teacher, but she had what she called " a divine spark: " Suddenly I said: Frankie is in love with her brother and the bride ...

This innovation came about because the bride price created a major social problem: many young prospective husbands could not raise the amount at the time when they would normally be expected to marry.

In the media, any news about MG Rover was overshadowed by the Pope's funeral and the problems of the register office marriage of the Prince of Wales and his bride.

It has become equally customary for women who are invited to serve as bridesmaids to first ask about the amount of time, energy, and money that the bride expects from them before accepting this position, and to decline or resign if this is more than they will be able to give.

They reflect the entirety of the bride's life: her touching farewells to loved ones as she departs for the wedding ceremony or her husband's home, premonitions about the future, age-old questions about relationships between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the innermost thoughts and emotions of the would-be bride.

Before meeting Frances, Erskine had written about the qualities he was looking for in a bride: " Let then my ornament be far from the tinsel glare, let it be fair yet modest, let it rather delight than dazzle, rather shine like the mild beams of the morning than the blaze of the noon.

The boy instead bragged about his bride for a year, and when they met again, she beat him around the ears with her cow's tail.

If the union is acceptable, a bride price is negotiated, typically ranging from three to ten silver bars, worth about $ 100 U. S. dollars each, a partial artifact from the opium trade.