In 1815 London, seven gentlemen, committed to choosing their own brides rather than submitting to conventional matchmaking, form a club.
Maltese lace, type of guipure lace (in which the design is held together by bars, or brides, rather than net) introduced into Malta in 1833 by Genoese laceworkers.
On the evidence of this merciless destruction of a quality Durham side, they are ready to be brides, rather than bridesmaids, at last.
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A landmark court ruling raising the legal age of marriage for girls in Tanzania to 18 will have little impact in ending child marriage if parents continue to marry off their daughters for bride price rather than educating them, campaigners said.
The 20,000 livres that he agreed to give at once was actually advanced to him by Madame Renaudin and was used to buy Josephine's trousseau, in all but name a bride-price rather than a dowry.
Others reported that they joined for money: When they married a Boko Haram fighter, they received their bride price directly, rather than see it paid to their families.
Children born within such marriages (via sexual relations between the bride and her chosen paramours) are automatically affiliated with the bride's female husband, rather than to the children's biological fathers.
Harry choosing a mixed-race bride was "personal choice" rather than statement.
In West Hollywood, a dozen couples waited overnight, bringing forms marked "Party A" and "Party B," rather than "bride" and "groom".
At weddings, she sets up an easel in a corner and tries to capture the ephemeral, poetic side of weddings -- impressions of how a bride and bridegroom feel rather than how they look, exactly.
