The Wedding Day in All Ages and CountriesHarper & Bros., 1869 - 299 páginas |
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... friends or strangers , to come to their marriage , or bidding , as it was called . Each guest was by these letters ... friend- ship may be as large as they please . In the words of an old bidding - letter , we can assure them that what ...
... friends or strangers , to come to their marriage , or bidding , as it was called . Each guest was by these letters ... friend- ship may be as large as they please . In the words of an old bidding - letter , we can assure them that what ...
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... friends for many valuable notes on the subject of this book . He also acknowledges his indebtedness for much information to those rich and almost inexhaustible stores of facts and references , Dr. William Smith's " Dictionary of the ...
... friends for many valuable notes on the subject of this book . He also acknowledges his indebtedness for much information to those rich and almost inexhaustible stores of facts and references , Dr. William Smith's " Dictionary of the ...
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... friendship ( Genesis xli . 42 ) , and of adoption ( Luke xv . 22 ) . Between the betrothal and the marriage an ... friends , and all communication between herself and her future husband was carried on through the medium of a friend ...
... friendship ( Genesis xli . 42 ) , and of adoption ( Luke xv . 22 ) . Between the betrothal and the marriage an ... friends , and all communication between herself and her future husband was carried on through the medium of a friend ...
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... friends , preceded by a band of musicians or singers , and accompanied by men bearing torches . Hav- ing reached the house of the bride , he conducted her and her party back to his own or his father's house , with audi- ble ...
... friends , preceded by a band of musicians or singers , and accompanied by men bearing torches . Hav- ing reached the house of the bride , he conducted her and her party back to his own or his father's house , with audi- ble ...
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... friends and neighbors of the couple were invited , and which was a most essential part of the marriage cere- mony . After the feast came music and dancing , the latter being performed by the male guests round the bridegroom , and by the ...
... friends and neighbors of the couple were invited , and which was a most essential part of the marriage cere- mony . After the feast came music and dancing , the latter being performed by the male guests round the bridegroom , and by the ...
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ancient attended banns Ben Jonson benediction betrothal bridal bride and bridegroom bride's father bride's house bridegroom's house cake called carried celebrated cere church Circassians Cloth concubinage conducted confarreatio consent contract couple crown custom dancing daugh daughter ding door dowry dressed early England Engravings feast female finger flowers friends garters gave gifts girl give given gloves gold groom guests head Henry VIII Hesperides History husband Illustrations Jews JOHN S. C. ABBOTT kiss knot lady LL.D Lord lover marriage marriage ceremony married married couple matrimony monogamy Morgengabe newly-married night nuptial pair parents parties performed persons polygamy Portrait posset posy prayers present priest received relations riage Roman rosemary round says Scotland sent seventeenth century shoe silver sometimes thee throw token took usually veil virgin vols wedding day wedding ring widow wife wine wives woman women wore young
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