The ceremony, a small affair attended by relatives, close friends and the cabinet and their wives, was performed at 7 pm in the Blue Room of the White House by the Reverend Byron Sutherland, assisted by the Reverend William Cleveland, the groom's brother.

In March 2011, it was announced that Prince William had chosen a groom's cake for his wedding reception, made from 1, 700 McVitie's Rich Tea biscuits and 17 kg of chocolate.

At the wedding, Gareth dies suddenly of a heart attack: Gareth's partner Matthew ( John Hannah, in one of his first screen roles ) is in another part of the room listening to the groom's toast when Gareth dies.

According to one ethnographic study of indigenous cultures worldwide, around 6 percent of North American indigenous cultures practised reciprocal exchange, involving the giving of gifts between both the bride and groom's families.

They were subjected to highly degrading practises like purdah ( living separately from men or in seclusion, see also sex segregation ); sati, the killing of the wife on the dead husband's funeral pyre ; child marriage, when girls of between 5 and 10 years old were married off, without their consent or knowledge ; dowry, the giving of expensive gifts by the bride's family to the groom's family in agreement to the wedding ; etc.

Best man was Lieutenant Commander Leigh C. Palmer, USN ( White House naval aide ), and other groom's men were Lieutenant Commanders R. K. Crank, L. M. Overstreet, and Lieutenant H. W. Osterhaus.

This conflicts with the interests of men, who want to marry early, as marriage means an increase in social status, and the interests of the groom's family, who will gain another pair of hands for the family farm, business or home.

Following the wedding, performed by Reverend Williamson of the Central Presbyterian Church in Denver, the newlyweds honeymooned a couple days at Eldorado Springs, Colorado a resort near Denver, and then visited the groom's parents in Abilene before settling into the lieutenant's crude living quarters at Fort Sam Houston.

When a young couple marry the groom's family have a ' do ' on the house.

The groom's parents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, did not attend the civil wedding ceremony but were present at the service of blessing and held a reception for the couple in Windsor Castle afterwards.

** Actual Wedding Ceremonies: Equivalent to exchanging vows in the west, the couple would pay respect to the Jade Emperor, the family deities ( or buddhas and bodhisattvas ), paying respect to deceased ancestors, the bride and groom's parents and other elders, and paying respect to each other.

The couple pray before the altar asking their ancestors for permission for their marriage, then to express their gratitude to both groom's and bride's parents for raising and protecting them.

The groom's giving an object of value to the bride is necessary for the wedding to be valid. Taking the bride to the mikveh, Georgia, early 20th century

A subtle shift in the requirements for a wedding can be detected in the modern blurb for Emily Post's Weddings " creating a wedding experience that demonstrates the bride and groom's commitment and uniqueness.

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.

In a double-ring wedding, the chief bridesmaid is often entrusted with the groom's wedding ring until it is needed during the ceremony.

It is commonly used in wayang golek, wayang wong and wayang kulit, in addition to high activities such as a Javanese wedding, especially for the stylised meeting ritual of bride's parents with groom's parents in the ceremonies of Peningsetan and Panggih.

In another occasion which involved a wedding, they sang a song which insulted the groom's appearance.

The Havelocks turn out to be close friends of M, who served as the groom's best man during their wedding in 1925.

Serbs consider Nikola Gardović, a groom's father who was killed at a Serb wedding procession on the second day of the referendum, on 1 March 1992 in Sarajevo's old town Baščaršija, to be the first victim of the war.

The wedding takes place in two installments, first at the bride's house, followed by a procession to the groom's house where a second ceremony occurs.

During the Javanese wedding ceremony, a kris is required to be adorned with chains of jasmine flower arrangement as an important part of Javanese groom's wedding costume.

The Javanese tradition of putting jasmine garlands around the kris hilt, especially on groom's kris during the wedding ceremony, is said to originate from this tale.

's Aunt Flo is having a wedding, but Junie B. is not the flower girl and the groom's sister is chosen instead.

The most important ceremonies of a Limbu wedding take place in the groom's house rather than the bride's because the bride has to stay with her husband.

The dinner was seen as the groom's last chance to entertain his friends as a single man ; after the wedding, dinner parties at his home would always be presided over by his wife in her role as hostess.

The groom's parents then set the date for the upcoming wedding.

If the groom's parents are also hosts of the wedding, then their names may be added as well.

Spirit money is most often used for venerating those departed but has also been known to be used for other purposes such as a gift from a groom's family to the bride's ancestors.

In the Manu Smriti, on the other hand, 8 types of marriage are specified: two involve bedecking the bride with costly garments and ornaments by the bride's family and groom's family, two involve the groom's family giving a gift to the family of the bride, and the other four do not involve an exchange of gifts.

Marriages were arranged, the groom's parents selecting the bride and negotiating the match.

It may be a joint event for the bride and groom's families, or it may consist of separate events for the bride's family and the groom's family.

Typically, this means that the bride's family sits on the house left and the groom's family on house right.

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.

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.

Kazakh stamps featuring a traditional bride's dress, groom's clothing and the interior of a kiyiz uy, a traditional Kazakh yurt.

Islamic law considers it haraam for a husband, the groom's family or the bride's family to take the mahr of the bride without her willful decision.

It is paid by the groom's family to the bride's family.

The original custom in Bangladesh was the bride price, called pawn, where the groom's family makes a payment to the bride's parents.

Ernest Simpson and Mary Raffray were married in the Diamond Jubilee ballroom of the Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield, Connecticut, on 19 November 1937, six months after the groom's divorce from Wallis Simpson and three weeks after the bride's divorce from Raffray ( whom she had married 29 July 1918 ).

As a prologue to marriage, the groom's family must visit the bride's family to ask permission for and blessings upon the upcoming marriage.

In a Fur marriage, the groom's father goes to the bride's father and asks for his son's permission to marry.

Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists, and passing a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the union.

Aleksandar Ranković was the groom's best man, and general Ivan Gošnjak was the bride's.

The Fürstenberg's marriage, though not popular with the groom's family because of the bride's Jewish ethnicity, was considered dynastic, and on her marriage Diane became Her Highness Princess Diane of Fürstenberg, but is no longer entitled to use the title following her divorce and then her remarriage in 2001.