The word 'groom' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who will marry a woman in a wedding ceremony, or to someone who takes care of domesticated animals, such as horses. For example, you could say, "The groom nervously awaited his bride at the altar."
Watching the rape of Sansa Stark by her new groom, Ramsay Bolton, on Game of Thrones, I have to say that I wasn't remotely offended.
We've got a 90-year-old with no energy and no idea of the way forward, and who's failed to groom a successor.
For the scene, I had to pick up a knife off the table, clink it against a wine glass to attract the attention of my sozzled guests, rise to my feet, and launch into a drunken eulogy to the bride and groom.
My wife says I grew a beard as another thing to groom.
And if feminist women have a problem with that, it's not as though men don't have to maintain and groom themselves either for the opposite sex.
One bride I designed for found a fine lace pair of knickers that matched her skin tone and thought they were invisible – until her groom pointed out the satin bow at the top, which showed through her dress.
You sensed she wasn't sure about his credentials because the pina coladas flushed up her cheeks like beacons at sunset and her mother had to prop her up all the way to the groom.
Stephen, our 'customer host', showed us to our doll's-house-perfect cabin: from the little latches holding the sink lid upright, to the washbag, with its one-squeeze tube of Colgate and a diddy comb that could be used to groom a hamster.
And weddings are escapism of the highest order, when people can for a night forget about living in one of the poorest countries in the world, where war has raged on for longer than the bride and groom have been alive.
One commentator, Brian Feeney, said: "The SDLP has a series of baronial figures - John Hume, Seamus Mallon, Eddie McGrady - who hung on to power and didn't groom their successors early enough.
An example of the traditionalesque would be the "Apache wedding prayer", read by a freelance multi-faith wedding minister called Joyce Gioia, when neither the bride nor the groom nor the prayer itself has anything to do with Apache culture (the prayer was invented for a Hollywood movie called "Broken Arrow").
