Word: nuptials
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...ager who had stolen a ride on a merry-go-round. Some weeks later in suburban San Gabriel, when police tried to enforce a ban against dancing after midnight. 300 guests at a wedding party swarmed to the attack with beer cans, whisky bottles, and the remnants of the nuptial feast...
...company is that of debonair Fred Astaire, playboy father of the bride, there is bound to be some bounce. And with Lilli Palmer, Fred's ex-wife and the bride's mother, handling the arrangements, one can expect grace and polish. But otherwise, it is a Nytol nuptial. Where the 1958 Broadway play (by Samuel Taylor "with" Cornelia Otis Skinner) set in motion a sea of social-comedy soap bubbles-light, radiant and pleasantly airy-and kept them afloat, the film merely brains its audience with broad gags...
...September, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier were married by Boston's Cardinal (then Archbishop) Gushing in a Newport extravaganza that moved society columnists to transports of joy. There were 26 groomsmen and bridesmaids, 700 guests (ranging from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to Marion Davies) at the nuptial Mass and 900 at the reception...
Since presiding over Britain's royal wedding in 1947, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, 72, Archbishop of Canterbury, has had little practice in tying nuptial knots. So he was understandably rusty last week while presiding at the marriage of his son, TV Producer Humphrey Fisher, 35, to pretty Airline Stewardess Diana Davis, 27. In pronouncing the lines of the Church of England ceremony, he solemnly besought God that "this woman may be lovely" instead of "loving." He hastily corrected himself, at ceremony's end further atoned by stalling the bridal procession with official busses for every single bridesmaid. Protested loving...
...Enumerating the blessings of having many children, the Pope added: "No sooner are the happy pilgrimages to the baptismal font ended than the bright series of first communions and confirmations begins, and when the smallest brother puts away his first-communion suit, out comes the family's first nuptial veil, bringing together before the altar the parents, all the children, and the delight of new in-laws...