Word: brided
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Length in feet of a Chinese wedding-dress train (below); the bride had hoped to land a place in the Guinness World Records book...
...moments, like Lila's ring tone (the Wicked Witch broomstick theme from The Wizard of Oz), and Corddry's exasperated description of his secret for a happy marriage ("Sit back, relax and wait for the sweet embrace of death"). I also appreciated Eddie's flailing argument for dumping his bride for another woman. "The heart wants what it wants," he says, quoting Woody Allen's remark to Walter Isaacson of TIME during the 1992 scandal involving the filmmaker's affair with his stepdaughter Soon...
...child marriages, or see the prosecution as religious persecution? After two and a half days of deliberation and the replacement of one juror, they found that Jeffs did "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly solicit, request, command or encourage" a 19-year-old follower to rape his 14-year-old bride at least twice...
...support, so he enrolled in the Education for Employment program after graduation and promptly landed an accountant job for CCC in the U.A.E. He sends at least a third of his $1,500 monthly paycheck home, with plenty remaining to provide for the woman who recently became his bride--as well as to make the required 10% tithe to the foundation...
...says Kashmiri weddings comprise an almost month-long cycle of feasts and exchange of gifts between the bride's and the groom's family. "Each side tries to outdo the other in the amount and value of gifts they offer," he says, "and this is considered to have become an unquestionable custom." His organization's members have committed to spending $1,250 or less on their wedding, and to hold "simple and austere" weddings in accordance with Shariah law, he says...