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  2. Animal as Bridegroom - Wikipedia

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    The princess (false bride) offers money to buy the golden spinning-wheel. Artwork by Henry Justice Ford for The Grey Fairy Book (1900). In folktales classified as tale type ATU 425A, "The Animal as Bridegroom", the maiden breaks a taboo or burns the husband's animal skin and, to atone, she must wear down a numbered pair of metal shoes. [29]

  3. "Weary Willie" Kisses the Bride - Wikipedia

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    Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride, silent film by Edwin S. Porter, 1904. Weary enters a railroad depot, finding a sleeping farmer. He reaches into the farmer's coat and steals a train ticket. Weary enters the train, and finds a bride and groom making out in a passenger coach. He sits down behind them. The groom leaves, upsetting the bride.

  4. Wedding customs by country - Wikipedia

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    Brazilian wedding ceremonies normally follow Christian traditions closely. The bride and groom recite wedding vows to each other after a prayer is read. Then the bride and groom exchange wedding rings. These rings are usually engraved with the name of the groom on the bride's ring and the name of the bride on the groom's ring.

  5. Þrymskviða - Wikipedia

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    "Ah, what a lovely maid it is!" (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith. Thor dresses up as a bride and Loki as a bridesmaid. Illustration by Carl Larsson.. Þrymskviða (Þrym's Poem; [1] [2] the name can be anglicised as Thrymskviða, Thrymskvitha, Thrymskvidha or Thrymskvida) is one of the best known poems from the Poetic Edda.

  6. Bride and Groom (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Paige (left) and Frank Parker, hosts of Bride and Groom (1957). Bride and Groom is a 1951–58 American daytime television series. It was originally broadcast on CBS from January 25, 1951 to October 9, 1953, and then moved to NBC for a run from December 1, 1953 to August 27, 1954.

  7. Indian Wedding Blessing - Wikipedia

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    The poem was originally written in 1947 by the non-Native author Elliott Arnold in his Western novel Blood Brother. The novel features Apache culture, but the poem itself is an invention of the author's, and is not based on any traditions of the Apache , Cherokee or any other Native American culture. [ 3 ]

  8. Epithalamion (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Epithalamion is a poem celebrating a marriage. An epithalamium is a song or poem written specifically for a bride on her way to the marital chamber. In Spenser's work, he is spending the day anxiously awaiting to marry Elizabeth Boyle. The poem describes the day in detail.

  9. The Rabbits' Wedding - Wikipedia

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    The Rabbits' Wedding is a children's picture book created and illustrated by American author and illustrator Garth Williams, who came to the fore as a writer after his success as an illustrator with Stuart Little. [1] The Rabbits' Wedding was published on April 30, 1958, and depicted the love affair and wedding of two bunnies, one white and one ...