Sentence examples for given as wedding from inspiring English sources

Shahtoosh shawls have traditionally been given as wedding gifts in India and Pakistan.

Ms. Brauer says vouchers have been given as wedding gifts and raffled as prizes at fund-raisers, uses she finds acceptable.

Colwin's references to organic chicken being "not easy to find" and fondue sets being given as wedding gifts ground her work in another era.

Most people, as Czerwinski says, identify them with "fancy heritage-ware for the export market" or the kind of "aspirational dinner services" that one might give as wedding presents, but would never want to own oneself.

It hardly needs the gloss that the portrait is of Freud's first wife, Kitty Garman, cradling one of the pair of bull terriers they were given as a wedding present - and that the marriage did not survive.

Akhtar led a double life, playing the dutiful son with an arranged marriage in the £350,000 home he was given as a wedding gift by his family, and working in his family's clothing firm empire.

There are many such items in the house: a vintage silver trump marker for high-toned bridge players; vintage cocktail shakers and jiggers; antique millinery irons that were used to make silk leaves; and a top hat and a shoe made of tin, so-called whimsies that were given as 10th wedding anniversary gifts in a gentler era.

She worked in the state legislature for decades, and for more than 60 years she also --remarkably -- ran the business of the farm she was given as a wedding present by my great-grandparents.

As much a given at weddings and school dances as The Village People's "YMCA," it's now a radio classic and staple still in many gay clubs.

Such is the love of gold in Kerala that there may be no household without some gold, tucked away as savings, either to be given away as wedding gifts for daughters or to raise cash by way of gold loans or outright sale.

Another Burton gift is a necklace – La Pérégrina – which contains one of the most important pearls there is, one discovered in the early 1500s in the Gulf of Panama which Philip II of Spain gave as a wedding gift to his wife Mary Tudor.