They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

In fact, O'Connor was honoured during the ceremony with the presentation of a $2500 diamond stickpin.

She giggled during the ceremony, and Mousie Chandler, who was one of Linda's bridesmaids, said John glared black as death at her.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The cost of guest tickets for that night's ceremony was $ 5.

Winners had been announced three months earlier ; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930.

This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began ; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.

At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27, 1957, the Best Foreign Language Film category was introduced.

On July 9, 2011, Agassi was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island.

Religion was stripped of ornament and ceremony, and made as plain and simple as possible ; sermons and songs often used repetition to get across to a rural population of poor and mostly uneducated people the necessity of turning away from sin.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

He found Christian prisoners from Germany in the heart of " Tartary " ( at Talas ), and was compelled to observe the ceremony of passing between two fires, as a bringer of gifts to a dead Khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.

In 1023 his body was moved by King Cnut to Canterbury, with great ceremony.

His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

On 14 September 2012 Brian Lara was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame at the awards ceremony held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

In 1980, Anthony Burgess, author of Earthly Powers, refused to attend the ceremony unless it was confirmed to him in advance whether he had won.

In particular, he was invited to play at the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow because the organizers wanted to give a " more Russian appearance " of the contest.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

It was unveiled in a ceremony at Qufu on September 24, 2009.

In 48, Messalina married her lover Gaius Silius in a public ceremony while Claudius was at Ostia.

The agreement was signed at a ceremony on board the USS Iwo Jima, docked in New York for the Navy's annual Fleet Week.

Funerals are conducted with more and more speed, no ceremony, and little concern for the feelings of the families of the deceased.

Her brother conducted the ceremony and a modest reception followed at her father's house.

* The theology of male clergy within the Independent movement is also suspect according to the Roman Catholics, as they presumably approve of the ordination of females, and may have even undergone an ( invalid ) ordination ceremony conducted by a woman.

When it declared devoid of canonical effect the consecration ceremony conducted by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục for the Carmelite Order of the Holy Face group at midnight of 31 December 1975, the Holy See refrained from pronouncing on its validity.

Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

On March 10, 1804, a formal ceremony was conducted in St. Louis to transfer ownership of the territory from France to the United States.

* 1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.

This ceremony was performed by an augur, who conducted the king-elect to the citadel where he was placed on a stone seat as the people waited below.

In a specific pronouncement in 1976, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared devoid of canonical effect the consecration ceremony conducted for the Palmarian Catholic Church by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục on December 31, 1975, though it refrained from pronouncing on its validity.

In both ancient Japanese collections, the Nihongi and Kojiki, Ame-no-uzeme ’ s dance is described as asobi, which in old Japanese language means a ceremony that is designed to appease the spirits of the departed, and which was conducted at funeral ceremonies.

* Baba Buddha Sahib Ji: Sikh saint, held the position of high Granthi in the Sikh religion, conducted the ceremony of guruship of the second guru up to the sixth guru, oversaw the construction of the Akal Takht

In celebration, on or around the date of the original signing, a historical ceremony is conducted at Campo de Cahuenga State Historic Park and site.

A military wedding is a ceremony conducted in a military chapel and may involve a Saber Arch.

* March 10 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.

By proxy at the Leuchtenberg Palace in Munich on 22 May 1823 and in person at a wedding ceremony conducted in Stockholm on 19 June 1823 he married the Princess Josephine, daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, and granddaughter of the Empress Josephine.

On February 12, 1914, a dedication ceremony was conducted and following month the actual construction began.

" So that both bride and groom could understand, Leith minister David Lindsay conducted the ceremony in French, describing Anne as " a Princess both godly and beautiful ... she giveth great contentment to his Majesty.

On May 15, 1997, the group performed with the Slovenian symphony orchestra, conducted by Marko Letonja, and the " Tone Tomšić " choir, for the opening ceremony of the Ljubljana European Month of Culture, presenting orchestral versions of their earliest material, which they rarely performed live, arranged by Uroš Rojko and Aldo Kumar with the members of the group.

The ceremony was conducted by the Cardinal Grand Almoner of France.

The ceremony was conducted by swearing on the Bible placed on a table beneath the Ulster banner.

Negotiations concerning the agreement, an outgrowth of the Madrid Conference of 1991, were conducted secretly in Oslo, Norway, hosted by the Fafo institute, and completed on 20 August 1993 ; the Accords were subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, D. C., on 13 September 1993 in the presence of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and U. S. President Bill Clinton.

President Herbert Hoover conducted the first national Memorial Day ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery, on May 30, 1929.

On New Year's Day the principal ceremony was conducted with the shofar, which instrument was placed in the center with a trumpet on either side ; it was the horn of a wild goat and straight in shape, being ornamented with gold at the mouthpiece.