Word: brides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WEEK BEFORE THE Khmer Rouge takeover Lien had acted as bridesmaid at a girlfriend's wedding. The ceremony took place on a sunny morning as friends and relatives arrived with presents and money-filled envelopes. Instead of the traditional pink Cambodian dress, the bride wore a western-fashion, white, wedding gown. At the reception afterwards, the guests plowed through cakes and cookies and drank tea and Coca-Cola...
...labor camp a couple years later, Lien spotted the bride-in-white's mother by the sound of her voice; she had withered beyond recognition. The woman sadly but tersely informed Lien that the girl had died, along with her new husband. The bride had been premonitory in her choice of attire: Cambodians customarily don white for funerals...
...rocketed to fame as Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, and Paul Simon, 41, still crazy about her after all these years, were married in a Jewish ceremony at his West Side Manhattan apartment. The cast of guests appropriate to such a show-biz union included the bride's long-divorced parents, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Star Wars Creator George Lucas, Comedian Robin Williams, Simon's once and present singing partner, Art Garfunkel, and Billy Joel, who presented the couple with a jukebox filled with records from the 1950s. More traditionally, Papa Fisher gave his daughter...
...slightly older and slightly higher in status and who understands the new notions about companionship and a mate chosen for love. Nearly 60% of marriages are still omiai, arrangements made mostly through family and friends but also through counseling and computer centers, and company introduction services. A bride no longer enters her husband's household as a kind of servant to her mother-in-law, nor will she shuffle respectfully three steps behind her husband...
...orchards and vineyards. The rocky soil was fertile once it got water, so, although too far above the river here for paddyfields, it produced fruit, melons and chestnuts through a computer-controlled sprinkler system. Down the dusty road until we reached a farmhouse. Tadashi knew the son and his bride...