A bride can choose most any song to walk down the aisle to as long as she is happy with it. Some prefer to stay traditional and go with the "Bridal Chorus", "Wedding March" or "Pachelbel's Cannon in D". Some more modern brides prefer to walk down the aisle to a song that is meaningful to them in some way.
The male equivalent of "bride" is "groom." While "bride" refers to a woman on her wedding day, "groom" refers to a man in the same context. Both terms are commonly used in wedding ceremonies and celebrations.
It's a term that was used years ago to mean a wedding where the groom was forced (sometimes at gunpoint) to marry the bride, usually because the bride was pregnant.
I have not seen the phrase used in a wedding invitation, but in newspaper wedding announcements and in wedding programs (church bulletins). -Emee Wedding Consultant Portland, OR
== == It is Italian for "Bride". It is often used in bridal/wedding related business names.
Esposa is a term that is used to describe either the bride (at the wedding) or a man's wife.
Wedding clothes are really just a formality. They are worn to distinguish bride and groom. It also ties in to western tradition of formality in weddings.
It used to be, but now it means the bride can buy an expensive dress!
A huppah is a canopy used in the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony. It can be as simple as a cloth on 4 corner poles held over the bride and groom by 4 members of the wedding party.
A dowery is payment to cover wedding expenses. A dowery is payment to the groom from the bride's family at the marriage
The two big songs in the movie 'My Best Friend's Wedding' are both by Dionne Warwick, "What The World Needs Now" and "Say A Little Prayer For You". Check the 'related links' below for the soundtrack and all of the songs used in the movie.
The traditional wedding cord, also known as the wedding lasso or wedding lazo cord is a piece of wedding paraphernalia used in some Christian Catholic wedding ceremonies. This is actually a representation of a loop of rosary beads made out of white satin or silk. During the wedding proper, this is traditionally formed into a figure-of-eight shape, and then placed around the neck areas of the bride and the groom after they have made their wedding vows, and are already kneeling on pillows for the pronouncement of a wedding prayer. This cord symbolizes lifetime unity or the everlasting union of the bride and groom when they officially become husband and wife, as well as a symbol of marital protection; while the loops formed signifies their love for one another. After the wedding, this marital twine is typically kept by the bride as a wedding souvenir.
Bride dolls are used on wedding cakes as a tradition because of the structure of the cake. When anybody looks at wedding cake, they generally see a structure that is wide at the base, but narrow at the peak. This is very philosophical and symbolic of what the groom's life should be like when married; all things in life should be considered less of a priority than his wife, who is usually positioned at the top of the cake.