The term picture bride refers to the practice in the early 20th century of immigrant workers ( chiefly Japanese and Korean ) in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States selecting brides from their native countries via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using only photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidates.

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.

* The groom will step on the glass to crush it, usually with his right foot, ostensibly in remembrance of the fall of the Second Temple.

When the bride leaves her home with the groom to his house, a " Good Luck Woman " will hold a red umbrella over her head, meaning " raise the bark, spread the leaves.

In most military weddings the groom, bride, or both ( depending on which is a member of the armed services ) will wear a military dress uniform in lieu of civilian formal wear, although military dress uniforms largely serve the same purpose.

In a typical white wedding ceremony, which is derived primarily from the Anglican tradition, the bride and groom will stand side by side at the front of the church or other venue throughout most or all the ceremony.

Females will often reject the attempts made by the males to groom them.

The first one is the time the groom and bride, along with their family, will be ready to receive guests and greet them ; the second one is the time the reception / banquet will start.

Very often, the restaurant will provide poker and májiàng ( 麻將 ) for gambling ; the time can also be used to socialize with other guests and take photos with the bride / groom and their families.

Two people will be at the sign-in tables ( one from the bride ’ s family and one from the groom ’ s ) to register guests and receive gifts / red envelopes.

Often, they will have two separate guest lists, one from the groom ’ s side and one from the bride ’ s.

Traditionally, after the fifth dish of the dinner, the groom and bride and their families will approach each table to toast the guests.

About twenty minutes after the tenth ( last ) dish is served, the groom and bride, along with their families, will line up at the entrance / exit to bid the guests farewell and thank them for coming.

Further, if a bride is a virgin, she often wears the face veil through the ceremony, and then either her father lifts the veil, presenting the bride to her groom, or the groom lifts the veil to symbolically consummate the marriage, which will later become literal.

Finally, by covering her face, the groom recognizes that he his marrying the bride for her inner beauty ; while looks will fade with time, his love will be everlasting.

The term " barbering " when applied to laboratory mice is a behaviour where a dominant mouse will use her teeth to pluck out hairs from the face of a passive mouse when they groom each other ( barbering is practised mostly by female mice ).

Point, who intends to marry Elsie someday, is assured that the groom will be beheaded directly after the ceremony.

Rats will chase each other, groom each other, sleep in group nests, wrestle with each other, have dominance squabbles, communicate, and play in various other ways with each other.

Some horses object to sheath cleaning and require sedation, others will tolerate it if the groom is careful and patient, though light sedation may help the horse " drop " for easier cleaning.

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

The groom will try to capture his bride by her legs (" binti "), with the witnesses shouting, " Kabit sa binti, kabit sa binti!

While the wedding itself is often based on the couple's choices, the wedding banquets are a symbolic gesture of " thanks " and appreciation, to those that have raised the bride and groom ( such as grandparents and uncles ) and those who will continue to be there to help the bride and groom in the future.

* Lễ Ǎn Hỏi ( betrothal ceremony ): Some time before the wedding, the groom and his family visit the bride and her family with round lacquered boxes known as betrothal presents.

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 groom recites " Harei at mekudeshet li k ' dat Moshe V ' Yisrael "- " behold you are sanctified to me by the law of Moses and Israel " as he places the ring on the bride's right index finger.

Commonly, toasts are proposed by the bride's father, the groom, the best man, and / or the maid of honor.

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

The groom then arranges for the fiancé of the bouquet-toss winner to receive the bride's garter.

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.

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 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 the groom moves to the bride's family home ( matrilocality ), but newlyweds may decide to live with either family depending on which household is most in need of labour.

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.

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

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

Per tradition a groom might offer the bride's parents betel and areca, the leaf and the nut symbolizing the ideal married couple bound together.

Generally the bride and groom attend the event together and on the occasion a professional henna artist or a relative applies mehndi to the bride's hands and feet.

There is no formal marriage ceremony: a couple are considered officially married when the groom presents his bride's parents with an antelope he alone has hunted and killed.

Then the bride and groom are taken to the bride's house and given food during which everyone says congratulations ( mabrouk in Arabic ).

Then, as the groom places the ring on the bride's finger, he says the following: