In a modern, forward-looking handbook that was supposed to be helpful to young brides, with its cheery tones and exclamation marks and numbered illustrations, she had come across certain words and phrases that almost made her gag: "mucous membrane," and the sinister and glistening "glans".
Mary concludes her boilerplate pep talk to distressed brides with the assurance that "not only is this marriage going to work; it's going to last forever".
Vera Wang, the iconic wedding gown designer, recently launched a wedding planning and design app to help brides with more than just the search for their dream dress.
They hope to help 20,000 brides with gifts of a lakh (around £1,300) each to ease the financial pressure on the girls' families.
Here's to the groom with bride so fair, And here's to the bride with groom so rare!
Now back at the studio that both nurtured and abandoned him, Burton turns in a delightful animated reworking of his early favourite, which plays as a monochrome companion piece to Corpse Bride, with echoes of the wonderful Vincent.
Recent gems charting their off/off relationship include his immortal: "Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding to a bride with a newspaper ring/HOMH is the part of a man who knows he's never really loved a thing".
On "Half of My Heart," a duet with Taylor Swift and the album's best song, he sings, "Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding to a bride with a paper ring/But half of my heart is the part of a man who's never truly loved anything".
Kipsigis men, who preferred to marry polygynously and purchased brides with "bridewealth" payments negotiated with their future wives' families, were found to pay more for wives who reached menarche early than for later-maturing ones.
The award for most memorable Groomzilla would go to the firefighter from Texas who didn't do anything to help his bride with the planning and called me "Candy" all weekend.
