Ikadigné condemns forced weddings; M'Bématoma tells us to heed our parents' advice; Sarankégni, a traditional tale embroidered with intricate electric guitar, is also about arranged marriages, while Kanougnogon says "Love must not be based on money or material goods".
Civil courts have the power to issue Forced Marriage Protection orders to prevent weddings from taking place.
It was a shotgun wedding, forced on the two parties by the voters 30 months ago, followed by a grisly bout of mutual infatuation in the Downing Street rose garden.
This is not just about forced baking of wedding cakes.
After regulators forced the shotgun wedding of the investment bank Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase in March 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission sent teams of observers to Lehman Brothers to gather information and monitor the company's condition.
First she's promised to the biggest jerk in Westeros, Joffrey; then she's nearly killed by her aunt, then she's pretty much forced into a wedding with Ramsay, a character so evil he makes Joffrey look good.
However, this wedding forced me to recognize that my "gray" divorce means that for every special family occasion that occurs in the future, I will have to be prepared to share it with a stranger, an outsider to the tight circle I viewed as my family.
Newly married, Messeroux says she was forced to miss weddings and often had to send her husband off alone to special events.
"I think there are a lot of people in this country who have anxiety about what marriage equality is going to mean for them, and there's a widespread misperception that changes to the marriage laws or discrimination laws are going to mean faith leaders are forced to perform weddings they don't want to perform," said Amanda Goad, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.
The writer recalls a movie "His Wedding Day," in which Harry Langdon was absorbed and overpowered by a mysterious character and forced to leave his wedding.
