Of receptions, they knew comparatively little except such as followed weddings among their acquaintances.
Many others are thinking the same thing, but they cannot express it so beautifully,” said a plaintive matron, one of the many whose perfunctory sighs at weddings are the reverse of complimentary to their bonded partners.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams came to Nashville to big weddings and dances often.
Even the large weddings are no longer town affairs.
Yet there is always one difficulty about this method of procedure: can such weddings be afforded the prominence necessary?
I have altered a few words to suit the difference of country, but when weddingsare performed in church, the rules given here are excellent.
He said it was an awful pity that a man who wanted music so badly and was always so obliging at weddings and funerals and entertainments should be without a proper instrument.
There is the mellow brown spinning wheel, and armchairs nearly two hundred years old and a walnut table that was mixed up in countless weddings and a beautifully carved old chest and a brocade-covered settee.
Most Green Valley courtships and weddings are conducted in a more or less public and leisurely fashion and elopements are rare.
These cards are used at all public weddings held in churches, and when used no one should be admitted to the church without one.
Weddings at the homes of the brides vary much, according to the taste of the participants.
These cards are used at all public weddings held in churches, and when they are used no one should be admitted to the church without one.
Evening weddings are not very convenient, chiefly because it is not as easy to handle the details as in the daytime.
Chapter XXXIX Deals with Weddings Anne felt that life partook of the nature of an anticlimax during the first few weeks after her return to Green Gables.
Sidenote: Ages for Marriage] Since young men are not often knighted until late in their teens or even beyond twenty, weddings on their side seldom take place early.
All the remainder of her life she will match weddings with her friends: "I had so many counts and barons at my marriage.
The men, no matter at what time of the day the ceremony might take place--and evening weddings are unknown--are in formal evening dress.
At day weddings afternoon dress is de rigueur for bridegroom, best man, ushers, and all male guests.
Unless you frequent afternoon teas or make many afternoon calls, or act as an usher at weddings in any city but New York, the frock coat is not, for the first three or four years of your career, an absolute necessity.
Weddings in society are celebrated either at church or at the home of the bride.
Evening weddings have within the past five years not been as much in vogue as formerly.
Hence the customs arose which are now prevalent,--the concealment of all marital relations, the public ignoring of each other by the spouses, and the practical jokes and horseplay at weddings by boys and neighbors.
Fescennine verses of the Romans, which were used at weddings and triumphs, were intended to ward off ill luck.
It is not until after the Babylonian exile, after the Jews had become more fully acquainted with the mores and usages of other civilized peoples of that age, that weddings amongst them were made more solemn and ceremonial.
Weddings were accomplished before witnesses independently of the church, or perhaps in the presence of a priest by the professiones.
Strewing the Bride's Path with Flowers= from the church to the carriage by village children is a custom much followed at weddings which take place in the country.
At choral weddings the clergy and choir head the bridal procession and lead the way to the chancel, singing a hymn the while.
At fashionable weddings one or two little boys act as pages, and occasionally bear the bride's train.
He officiates at offerings (diwáta) and at folk weddings and other ceremonies in relation to supernatural beings.
To preserve the faithful from pollution by Moorish and Jewish superstitions, they are commanded no more to frequent the weddings and funerals of the infidels.
In Aragon a canon of the Council of Lérida, in 1325, forbidding Christians to be present at Jewish weddings and circumcisions, shows how fruitless as yet had been the effort to produce mutual alienation.
The bailes out at the Quemado; weddingsfar out in the chaparral.
Weddings were not common in the little border town, unless you counted the mating of young Mexicans, who were always made one by the priest in the adobe church closer to the river.
At weddings and other feasts their aid and protection are invoked.
In the marriage season he is worshipped in the family cook-room, and at weddings oil and turmeric are offered to him.
Many of the Kharwars are now coming more completely under Brahmanical influence, and these worship the Pitri at weddings in the courtyard.
Recently at several large weddings they were omitted by the entire bridal party.
The weddings will never come off; all that is past; we could not even buy the dentist, now.
And we'll want to do these weddings up in the very regalest style that's going.
Mr. Lysight also describes the happy consequences of such weddings with infinite humour.
At one of the old class of weddings took place the most interesting incident of my early life, as I stated in a former volume.
Look, for another instance, at the reports of weddings and society entertainments, all done after one execrable model, dull and perfunctory.
Do you think I'd be playing the fool at weddings to-night, afther what just took place?
And though all the company had probably been at weddings before, and that often, they seemed new to the proceedings.
They passed several salutary laws for restraining the ambitious expenditure at weddings and funerals, as usual, most affected by those who could least afford it.
The man of the world does not only keep religion and business in water-tight compartments, he keeps dreams for the night, and poetical recollections for important occasions, such as weddings and funerals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weddings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
