Sentence examples for modern weddings from inspiring English sources
"Modern weddings are not about a man owning a woman," he says.
It all seems to be a reaction against the standardized complexity of modern weddings.
Ms. Cooney likens Egyptian funerals to modern weddings as events designed to display the power and prestige of the celebrants.
According to both ministers, self-centred brides are to blame for the state of modern weddings – events that Vickery calls "narcissistic cleavage conventions".
The magazine, which has been monitoring the cost of weddings for 12 years, has added new categories to its survey, including beauty treatments and hen and stag nights, to better reflect the cost of modern weddings.
When the Rev Dr Giles Fraser, the canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, delivered himself the other day of the opinion that modern weddings have become overblown, narcissistic productions – "I'd even say they were becoming a threat to marriage itself," he said, speaking on Radio 4's Thought for the Day – his words were, to me, not at all unfamiliar.
The best-known movement is perhaps the "Wedding March," which is often played in modern wedding ceremonies.
Crown; 320 pages; $27.50WHEN Edward Bernays and his wife Doris married in 1922, they wanted a modern wedding, stripped of the pomp and ceremony that symbolised the enslavement of woman to man.
In the show's best comic moment she instructs Iphigenia's bridesmaids about how to act properly, in a snatch of dialogue that sounds borrowed from a handbook from the modern wedding industry.
Even modern wedding rings are a fairly regular foreshore finds, which suggests that the Thames is still a willing recipient of broken hearts, dreams, and even the ultimate act of a broken spirit – suicide.
Yet for all the attention this trio (rightfully) received, the glory of "Bridesmaids" was in its ability to capture the peculiar folds of the übercompetitive girlie-girl (Rose Byrne) without falling into that rabbit hole where the excesses of modern wedding culture are treated as anything less than pathological.
