Sentence examples for off the brides from inspiring English sources

As the Vatican is trying to wall off the "brides of Christ," Cask of Amontillado style, it is welcoming extreme-right Anglicans into the Catholic Church — the ones who are disgruntled about female priests and openly gay bishops.

Traditionally they were the offspring of Ixion, king of the neighbouring Lapiths, and were best known for their fight (centauromachy) with the Lapiths, which resulted from their attempt to carry off the bride of Pirithous, son and successor of Ixion.

Gogglebox – one of several come-bake-off-with-the-bride type programmes the girls of my family insist I must watch when I could be reading football memorabilia books – had its heroes viewing The Apprentice last time.

After the party, pack the gifts and ship them off to the bride.

Her oldest son is 17, and sons are costly to marry off anyway: the bride's family expects a house in the bargain.

And so the last hope that true romance may still be abroad somewhere on this blighted planet has been snuffed out before it even reached its zenith: 85-year-old Hugh Hefner's marriage to 25-year-old Playmate Crystal Harris has been called off, at the bride's insistence, five days before the ceremony, a move that seems to have baffled her fellow Playmates.

"The only thing that might be complicated is getting the garter off the bride" to toss.

The focus, now off the bride, is on the ever accentuating presence of the substance-abusing sister.

The first usher and groomsmen job was to help the groom fight off the bride's attacking family.

Or is this how it always ends up -- sentiment is cast aside when the blush is off the bride?

Letting her help with this aspect of the wedding planning will help her feel useful and let her know she's taking some stress off the bride.