As for the groom, he was dressed in a glittering gold-colored jacket and for maximum effect was riding a white stallion.
No moneylender in his right mind would, at any rate of interest, advance a sufficient sum to buy the necessary items for each daughter: beds, a dresser, trunks, electric fans, dishes, six suits of clothes for the groom, six for the bride, perhaps a television, and on and on and on.
Usually it means that it is now culturally acceptable for the bride and groom to go out in public, talk on the phone, etc.
Peggy Post disagrees with putting a price limit on a wedding gift ("There's no such thing as a dollar amount, " she says), but she does suggest basing the amount you spend on your affection for the bride and groom and their family.
One proposed feature of the ceremony: When it is time for the big kiss, the bride and groom can each chomp on the end of a french fry until their lips meet.
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Another guest at the bogus ceremony was served with a notice of potential liability on behalf of the Manzil Indian takeaway on Princes Street, Port Glasgow, for illegally employing the would-be groom.
But doubts about his sincerity are fuelled by his failure to groom anyone for the post.
Still, for all his grimness, the groom-to-be recalls the fire of that first sexual encounter with Sylvia it took place on a passenger train and that there was something magnificent about the woman.
In June this year, Habbo Hotel, a popular social network for children, temporarily suspended the chat function on its service, following claims paedophiles were using the virtual hotel to groom youngsters for sex.
She had allegedly married off her daughter to a man under a custom whereby the groom pays her for the girl.
But afterwards Mr Marjoram said: "This was certainly used as device by King for him to get in with the boys, to start speaking to them and to groom them for his own purposes".
Not an ex of the bride or groom and preferably not someone who is not on the guest list for a reason.
After graduation Derer was selected for a special company program designed to groom the next generation of Cat engineers.
Mr Sharon plainly intends to groom others for that, including the former army chief of staff, Shaul Mofaz, and the mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert.
Either the potential bride or groom must prove that that they have been living in the area for at least a week by supplying proof of address, such as a utility bill, and must provide a passport or ID card and proof of work.
The son of a vice cop and a telephone operator, Lang Lang is no athlete he is as sedentary as a veal calf in a dark shed but he has prepared for the Games with the intensity of a middle-distance runner and the ecstatic anticipation of a groom.
How will you train or groom the person to take over for you?
The groom, an engineer, applied for an annulment because his bride, a student nurse, had lied to him about her virginity.
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Police believe he contacted the woman through the social networking site to groom her young boys for abuse.
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Mr Prakash - who has been doing the job for seven years - might end up watching a groom at a coffee shop, a hotel or a bar.
When Queen Victoria rounds on her groom, John Brown, for over-familiarity, the courtiers melt out of the shot, leaving him isolated and vulnerable.
The 36-year-old is also coach of Wales' under-20 squad so is acutely aware of the importance to unearth and groom home-grown talent for both club and country.
They had waited patiently, some for days, to see what they could of the biggest royal wedding since the groom's parents, Charles and Diana, married in 1981.
Parent Julie Groom cried as she took her two children to Church Hill School for the last day.
Later someone told me that the groom had paid a bride price of ten camels and twenty goats for his mystery woman, a figure that was considered dangerously inflationary.
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