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WEDDINGS WEDDINGS. Weddings are a universal life cycle event where rituals and ceremony display a group's interest, whether conspicuously or obscurely, in economics, organizational balance, power, and social forms. Nuptials allow families and couples to establish a new status in society; this is... Read more
Wedding March Wedding March
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The Member of the Wedding The Member of the Wedding
Member of the Wedding, The, novel by Carson McCullers, published in 1946 and dramatized by the novelist in 1950.Frankie Adams, a lonely, sensitive, 12‐year‐old girl, lives in a small Southern town with her widowed father and Berenice Sadie Brown, the warm, understanding,... Read more
Cana Cana
Cana , ancient town of Galilee. According to the Gospel of St. John it was here that Jesus performed his first miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding.... Read more
Eris Eris
Eris , in Greek religion, goddess of strife. Angered at not being invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, she threw down the apple of discord (see Paris , in Greek mythology). Author not available, ERIS., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2006... Read more
Honeymoon Honeymoon
Honeymoon The honeymoon is a peculiarly modern creation. Building on wedding customs of Europe in the late 1800s, the honeymoon has evolved into a ritual that nearly all people in the United States and Canada practice and that has grown in popularity around the world (Bulcroft, Smeins, and... Read more
Beauty Beauty
beauty In Greek mythology, Paris was called to judge who of three goddesses, Aphrodite, Hera, and Pallas Athene, was the fairest. Eris, the goddess of discord, started the trouble when she appeared at a wedding, and threw a golden apple inscribed ‘For the Fairest’. The result was a... Read more
chimera chimera
chimera In classical myth, the Chimera is one of many creatures combining the identities of human and beast, or merging features of more than one animal. In classical thought, these hybrids are sometimes divine: the god Pan, for example, is represented as part goat. Human– animal hybrids... Read more
Eleonora Eleonora
Eleonora, story by Poe, in The Gift (1842). This brief romance tells of a youth reared with his cousin Eleonora in the beautiful Valley of the Many‐Colored Grass. They fall in love, but she dies after he pledges never to wed “any daughter of Earth.” Grieving, he goes to a... Read more
Abies Irish Rose Abies Irish Rose
Abie's Irish Rose (1922), a comedy by Anne Nichols. [Fulton Theatre, 2,327 perf.] Because of their fathers' strong religious prejudices, Abie Levy ( Robert B. Williams) and Rose Mary Murphy ( Marie Carroll) have been secretly married by a Methodist minister. When Abie first introduces her to... Read more

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Member of the Wedding, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Member of the Wedding, The, novel by Carson McCullers, published...Janice, ask her to be a member of their wedding and she suffers the misapprehension...happy threesome. On the day before the wedding, sure that it is her last at home...
Their Wedding Journey
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Their Wedding Journey, novel by Howells, published in 1871. A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890), An Open‐Eyed Conspiracy (1897), and Their Silver Wedding Journey (1899) are also concerned with the Marches.This simple, episodic...
Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding (1988), an interactive comedy by Artificial Intelligence. [Washington...as “an intentionally tacky duplication of an Italian‐American wedding ceremony” complete with church service and followed by a reception...
Arrah Na Pogue; or, The Wicklow Wedding
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Arrah Na Pogue; or, The Wicklow Wedding (1865), a play by Dion Boucicault. [Niblo's Garden, 68...W. Scallan) who divulges the secret on the eve of Arrah's wedding to Shaun the Post ( T. H. Glenney), hinting that more than...
wedding garland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea wedding garland, an 18th- and 19th-century custom in British warships of hoisting a garland of evergreens in the rigging of a warship...
New York Idea, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...from their new amours. On the day of the wedding he invites Cynthia, an ardent horsewoman...John's home, only to learn that the wedding has taken place. Her dismay turns to...She returns to John, who has kept her wedding ring just in case. Theatrical historian...
Five Star Final
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Michael Townsend ( Malcolm Duncan) and is preparing for the wedding of her daughter Jenny ( Frances Fuller). When a reporter...insists it is still news. The story is published on Jenny's wedding day, and Nancy and Michael commit suicide. Jenny comes to...
García Lorca, Federico
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Bodas de sangre (1933), about a wife's elopement on her wedding night and the husband's revenge; Yerma (1934), in which...London (1939); it has since been widely revived as Blood Wedding. Yerma was produced in London in 1957 and The House of Bernarda...
Jane Eyre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...and independence, and they fall in love. After much resistance she agrees to marry him, but on the eve of their wedding her wedding veil is rent by an intruder who is the next day revealed to be his mad Creole wife Bertha, confined to the upper...
Robin Hood
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Bartlett Davis), to the Sheriff himself. But before the wedding can take place Robin Hood is rescued by his band, who carry...theatre songs to retain its popularity for decades. It was the wedding song of choice for more than forty years.

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wedding
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable wedding one wedding brings another proverbial saying, mid 17th century. (Compare one funeral makes many).wedding-finger another name for the ring-finger; it was traditionally believed...
Wedding March
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Wedding March. Many court composers have written marches for the weddings of royal and aristocratic...Lohengrin and exit to the wedding march which is the 6th no...Princess Royal, used it at her wedding. Its supremacy was dented...
china wedding
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable china wedding in the US, a 20th wedding anniversary.
wedding march
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English wed·ding march • n. a piece of march music played at the entrance of the bride or the exit of the couple at a wedding.
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Pf. piece by Grieg, No.6 of his Lyric Pieces (Book 8), Op.65 (1897), later orch. Grieg's villa, built in 1885 outside Bergen, was called Troldhaugen.
Wedding, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Wedding, The ( Stravinsky). See Noces, Les.
Bees Wedding, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Bee's Wedding, The. Fanciful name for Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte No.34 in C for solo pf. (Book VI, Op.67, No.4, Spinnerlied). Sometimes known as Spinning Song. Comp. 1845.
Rustic Wedding
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Rustic Wedding (Ländliche Hochzeit). Title of sym.-poem in 5 movts. by K. Goldmark, 1876.
Auroras Wedding
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Aurora's Wedding. The divertissement of the last act, perf. separately, of ballet The Sleeping Beauty (mus. by Tchaikovsky) supplemented by extra numbers based on Diaghilev's London prod. 1921. F.p. Paris 1922.
Tavener, (Sir) John (Kenneth)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...1986); Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1986); Wedding Prayer (1987); Many Years (1987); Acclamation...1990); Ikon of the Nativity (1991); A Village Wedding (1992); Wedding Greeting, ten., ch. (1992).CHAMBER MUSIC...

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wedding
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus wedding • noun a noon wedding at St. Mark'ssynonyms: marriage (service/ceremony/rites), nuptials, union, commitment ceremony; archaic espousal.
marriage
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...matrimony, wedlock, conjugal bond, union, match. 2. invited to their marriagesynonyms: marriage ceremony, wedding, wedding ceremony, nuptials. 3. the marriage of their skillssynonyms: alliance, union, merger, unification, amalgamation...
ring
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...the rings around Saturn synonyms: circle, band, loop, hoop, halo, disk. 2. she wore a ring synonyms: wedding ring, wedding band, band. 3. a circus ring synonyms: arena, enclosure, field, ground; amphitheater, stadium. 4. a...
nuptials
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English nuptials • plural noun synonyms: wedding, wedding ceremony, marriage ceremony, marriage.
buffet
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English buffet1 • noun 1. a wedding buffetsynonyms: smorgasbord; inf. spread. 2. buying a buffet for the dining roomsynonyms: sideboard, cabinet, china cabinet/cupboard.
cake
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...Tatin tea cake timbale tiramisù toffee pudding torte tortoni tres leches trifle upside-down cake vacherin vanilla pudding wedding cake whoopie pie zabaglione zuppa inglese See also tables at candy, cookie, doughnut, pastry, and pie.
ceremony
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ceremony • noun 1. a wedding ceremonysynonyms: rite, service, formality, observance, function, custom, sacrament, show.See ceremonial noun . 2. conducted with...
dress
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...maternity dress Mother Hubbard muumuu off-the-shoulder dress pinafore princess dresssack dress sari sarong sheath shift shirtdress shirtwaist skimmer slip dress strapless dress sundress tank dress tea gown tube dress tunic wedding gown
hall
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...lobby, foyer, vestibule; atrium, concourse; passageway, passage, corridor, entryway. 2. we booked a hall for the wedding synonyms: banquet hall, community center, assembly room, meeting room, chamber; auditorium, concert hall, theater.
mingle
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...combine, merge, fuse, unite, join, amalgamate, meld, mesh; literary commingle.antonyms: separate, be separated. 2. wedding guests mingled in the lobby synonyms: socialize, circulate, fraternize, get together, associate with others; informal...

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Wedding service is no longer a privilege of just the rich and famous.
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Wedding planners not just for wealthy anymore.
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Wedding bell blues being sung by guests; Goin' to the chapel of someone...
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Wedding Planning Cutbacks Start with Honeymoon, Flowers, Reception: Survey.
News Wire article from: PRWeb Newswire Brides are still cutting back on their wedding spending across the board, and the areas where they...catering - all this according to a recent survey by My Wedding Workbook, an online wedding planner. (Vocus) October 28, 2009 -- The lagging...
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News Wire article from: PRWeb Newswire ...dictionary, guides on how wedding dresses are made, and wedding dresses from all over...the boom of summer weddings just around the corner...classic Badgley Mischka wedding gown with a removable...Skirts With two royal weddings around the ...
Wedding industry vows to be interesting.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald ...aspect of the wedding process, need...specialize in weddings. People who...planning their weddings. For someone...create customized wedding invitations...Pursuing a career in weddings is challenging, but wedding ...
WEDDING FATTERINDIAN.
Newspaper article from: Mail Today (New Delhi, India) ...crore is spent on weddings every year in India. But celebrity wedding planner Vandana...are hosting the wedding in India, a must...chefs. Why are weddings becoming bigger...consultancy. Now a wedding photographer, Radhik...shoots for three ...
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News Wire article from: PRWeb Newswire ...award-winning wedding website provider...cookie-cutter weddings are a thing of...dedicated to customized weddings. (PRWEB) October...is comprised of wedding professionals and...feature some of the weddings and wedding ...

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