Some women staged lavish wedding ceremonies, even filing licenses using masculine names with New York City.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

The wedding is a lavish ceremony and Paula is given the honorific title of Augusta.

The proxy wedding ceremony in Florence was celebrated with lavish entertainments, including examples of the newly-invented musical genre of opera, Jacopo Peri's Euridice.

The plans for a lavish wedding continue until the day that Buckley tells Kay that he wants to take her on a fishing trip in Nova Scotia for their honeymoon.

He maintained a notoriously lavish lifestyle ( including a state-sponsored US $ 3 million wedding in 1980 ), and made millions from involvement in the drug trade and from selling body parts from dead Haitians while poverty among his people remained the most widespread for any country in the Americas.

The " Bridal District ," along the stretch of the downtown area on Las Tunas Drive, has made Temple City a bride's " mecca " for all wedding needs including elaborate dresses, floral creations and lavish portraits.

The wedding was lavish and featured the ceremony on a steamship overlooking the factory as well as fireworks and rifle salutes.

In television, Jack Frost ( voiced by Paul Frees ) makes an appearance in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July where after Winterbolt grows jealous of Frosty the Snowman because of the attention the children lavish upon him, He tries to render Frosty lifeless by stealing his magic hat but eventually Jack Frost appears at the end and brings him back to life, chosen as the best man at Milton and Lane's wedding.

Their lavish wedding ceremony was attended by some 65 guests, including Hollywood stars Ava Gardner, Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.

Moreover, their wedding was the major social event of its time-one of the most lavish of the Gilded Age.

The wedding which was billed as one of the most lavish Hindu nuptial ceremonies in history cost $ 9. 5 million to stage.

A minor scandal arose when Philippe, comte de Paris, the nominal inheritor of the French throne in the eyes of Orléanist monarchists, married his daughter Amélie to Portugal's Carlos I, in a lavish wedding that provoked fears of anti-Republican ambitions.

They married in a lavish ceremony aired in Mexico where everyone witnessed her 35-m long wedding train.

Punjabi Hindus usually have a relatively liberal lifestyle and are well known for their lavish wedding parties.

" Festival books ", produced as souvenirs of lavish festivities, contain detailed descriptions of many important intermedi, such as those for the Medici wedding of 1589, for which 286 costumes were made.

The double wedding was a lavish affair with festivities ; Charles, then 17, rode in the tourneys.

In May 2010, Hayley encounters problems with Roy when she suggests that they have a lavish wedding, now that the law has changed and their union can now be officially recognised.

On April 7, 1977, Ivana married Trump in a lavish society wedding.

The stories unfold in a single day during a lavish wedding that merges a middle-class Southern family with a wealthy one that has connections to organized crime.

The staging in 1600 of Peri's opera Euridice as part of the celebrations for a Medici wedding, the occasions for the most spectacular and internationally famous intermedi of the previous century, was probably a crucial development for the new form, putting it in the mainstream of lavish courtly entertainment.

The couple's wedding was lavish and extravagant.

The wedding was celebrated with lavish festivity including games in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, as fully described by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, who happened to be present.

Kęstutis then resorted to take her by force, and with great pomp brought her back to his capital, Trakai, where he invited his kinsmen and celebrated with a lavish wedding ..." Kęstutis was later murdered and Birutė returned to Palanga and resumed serving at the shrine until her death.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

Nevertheless, though the senatorial order came to hate and fear him, the evidence suggests that he remained popular with the army and the common people for much of his reign, not least because of his lavish shows of largesse ( recorded on his coinage ) and because he staged and took part in spectacular gladiatorial combats.

He took a lavish international " farewell " tour mostly at taxpayers ' expense, without transacting any official business.

The lavish ceremony took place in the chapel of the Palace of Versailles.

From the mid-1870s, as white blackface minstrelsy became increasingly lavish and moved away from " Negro subjects ", black troupes took the opposite tack.

The château was lavish, refined, and dazzling to behold, but these characteristics proved tragic for its owner: the king had Fouquet arrested shortly after a famous fête that took place on 17 August 1661 where Molière's play ' Les Fâcheux ' debuted.

In the Middle Ages psalters were among the most popular types of illuminated manuscripts, rivaled only by the Gospel Books, from which they gradually took over as the type of manuscript chosen for lavish illumination.

The lavish ceremony took place at Belgrade's InterContinental Hotel.

In 2003, Wilson Milam took a lavish and updated production ( replacing the smashing of a typewriter with a modern working laptop, and using 20 working toasters ) to the Bristol Old Vic with Phil Daniels as Lee and Andrew Tiernan as Austin.

From the 1940s until 1972 — and again in the early 1990s — the Jordan Marsh flagship store in Boston's Downtown Crossing was home to the Enchanted Village, a lavish Christmas display which at its height took over an entire floor of the department store and was also spotlighted in its display windows.

Because the last was outside the mainstream political view in Croatia, few took him seriously, despite the lavish campaign he was able to pay for.

John Rylands ' widow, Enriqueta Rylands, had admired the library Champneys had designed for Mansfield College, Oxford and hired him to develop the design on a more lavish scale — The John Rylands Memorial Library in Deansgate, Manchester took nine years to build before opening on January 1, 1900, it is one of Champneys ' finest designs.

Halfway through the run, Parton, who retained creative control over the show, took command and jettisoned many of the lavish, splashy segments that she felt were not working in favor of a more " down home " feel.

Queen Mary took part in the battlecruiser squadron's visit to Cronstadt, where the fleet officers and sailors were entertained by the Russian royal family, and a lavish ball was held on board ship as the culmination of the visit.

The bulk of the story takes place in the lavish home of Edward Barrett ( Charles Laughton ) and his adult children.

Cries and Whispers takes place in a lavish mansion in the 1800s, filled with red carpets and white statuary.

The expensive and lavish decoration of the palace caused such scandal that it was demolished soon after Nero's death and public buildings such as the Baths of Titus and the Colosseum were built in its place.

Although he spent much of his time at his country estate at Grandval, d ' Holbach used his wealth to maintain one of the more notable and lavish Parisian salons, which soon became an important meeting place for the contributors to the Encyclopédie.

Still more energetic on the other side, the Russian minister, Andrei Osterman, became the treasurer as well as the counsellor of the Caps, and scattered the largesse of the Russian empress with a lavish hand ; and so lost to all feeling of patriotism were the Caps that they openly threatened all who ventured to vote against them with the Muscovite vengeance, and fixed Norrköping, instead of Stockholm, as the place of meeting for the Riksdag as being more accessible to the Russian fleet.

At the centre of the facade, the largest and most lavish room, at Wilton the famed Double Cube Room, this was a gathering place for the court of the honoured guest.

Mehndi ceremonies take place outside India and Pakistan amongst the Indian / Pakistani community and places like Birmingham in the UK are such known hotspots for lavish Mehndi celebrations.

Moorcrest is notable not only for its ornate style, but its place as the most lavish residence associated with the Krotona Colony, a utopian society founded by the Theosophical Society in 1912.

The lavish meeting place of the Landsraad, the council of noble Houses, is described in Dune: House Atreides:

In the 1070s, Shen had purchased a lavish garden estate on the outskirts of modern-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, a place of great beauty which he named " Dream Brook " (" Mengxi ") after he visited it for the first time in 1086.

There was usually an odd number of state rooms for the following reason: At the centre of the facade, the largest and most lavish room, ( for example at Wilton House the famed Double Cube Room ), or as at Blenheim Palace ( right ) this was a gathering place for the court of the honoured guest.