Sentence examples for festive wedding from inspiring English sources

In every respect, it was a real, festive wedding in miniature.

At a festive wedding I attended last Saturday it was obviously going to take more than Osama bin Laden to keep the Electric Sliders off the dance floor.

Here's where our writers take us this week: A festive wedding in London The loveliest home office in Paris Secretive, not-so-garden-like spots in the Garden State (kinda like the opening credits of the Sopranos) A church in Virginia where the gospel of debt-free living is preached.

"Our court wears gravity more than we relish," says the Spartan King Amyclas, hoping for some festive wedding celebrations to raise the collective spirits, in "The Broken Heart," a 17th-century drama by John Ford being presented at the Duke on 42nd Street by Theater for a New Audience.

The festive wedding scene of dancing country maidens shaking their tambourines to the music of a flutist and a piper is watched by elegantly dressed aristocrats and two outsiders -- Don Quixote, in armor, and Sancho Panza, in baggy pants, feasting under a tree.

A festive Israeli wedding party turned into a national tragedy Thursday night as a crowded dance floor collapsed onto a packed dining hall one level below, killing at least 25 and injuring more than 350, according to official reports.

Madhubani Paintings have been practiced for centuries by the Maithil women to represent festive occasions like wedding, ceremonies, birth and other celebrations of life.

The re-envisioned Pavilion, starting with a welcome bar at dockside, is to host the traditional summer bacchanalia that made it famous, but, in a sign of the changing social and political climate, it will also become a festive venue for weddings for the men who travel to the Pines each summer.

We were drawn to the Kurds' festive spirit, colorful weddings and boisterous candor.

Liang Shiqiu translated it as "games" in Mandarin Chinese in 1964, alluding to the manipulative Prospero's "games" on the island, but Zhu Shenghao preferred "carnivals" (1954), highlighting the festive nature of the wedding celebration.

(English: "Ariadne") L'Arianna was composed as a festive piece for the wedding of the heir to the duchy, Francesco Gonzaga, to Margherita of Savoy, in May 1608.