My cousin told me she only really wanted a small occasion for her nearest and dearest and didn't want her husband paying the wedding off for years, as is often the case.
One of my dearest college friends who, by a benign coincidence, has moved into the same North Dublin road I live in describes himself as the "least nationalistic person you know".
On the 1968 European Cup final: "This is the greatest night of my life, the fulfilment of my dearest wish to become the first English side to win the European Cup.
Worth £150,000, the deal made him the second dearest signing in the club's history - Malcolm Macdonald had arrived from Luton in the summer for £180,000 - and the most expensive Scotsman of all-time.
My dearest old friends, together since the dark days when gay sex was illegal, were civilly partnered a day after the law permitted it.
In his speech last Friday at Nike's headquarters in Oregon, Obama said unions have been "fellow travelers" with him on increasing the minimum wage and job training, but he added: "On trade, I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong.
But as many people in the bars of Shinjuku wryly note, in other areas of policy, Mr Abe's dearest wish is to rewrite the bits of the constitution that he finds archaic.
These deals appear to value it at about $1.3 billion, which could well make it South-East Asia's dearest technology firm.Like other Rocket companies, Lazada is run by a gaggle of young European expatriates, plucked from finance and consulting.
But at least investors can take comfort that this liquid asset is drinkable and that what tastes best is not always dearest.
"EVEN the dearest that I love the best/Are strange nay, stranger than the rest".
Especially in the marginal south-eastern constituencies that are dearest to his heart, people may listen when the Tories ask, does this son of the Kirkcaldy manse really understand us?
