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Perhaps no poem of this class has been more universally admired than the pastoral Epithalamion of Edmund Spenser (1595), though he also has important rivals—Ben Jonson, Donne and Francis Quarles. [2] Ben Jonson's friend, Sir John Suckling, is known for his epithalamium "A Ballad Upon a Wedding." In his ballad, Suckling playfully demystifies ...
"Ah, what a lovely maid it is!" (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith. Thor dresses up as a bride and Loki as a bridesmaid. Illustration by Carl Larsson.. Þrymskviða (Þrym's Poem; [1] [2] the name can be anglicised as Thrymskviða, Thrymskvitha, Thrymskvidha or Thrymskvida) is one of the best known poems from the Poetic Edda.
There are 365 longer lines and 68 shorter lines. The 365 longer lines represent the year leading up to Spenser's wedding day. [5] The poem starts at midnight of the day of the wedding, as Spenser grows anxious of the future he is embracing. Every stanza is an hour of that day, eventually leading to the event and then to the consummation.
Items chosen to bring good luck to the bride. In this case, the veil was borrowed and the handkerchief was new. A British Victorian sixpence, traditionally worn in the bride's left shoe on her wedding day. "Something old" is the first line of a traditional rhyme that details what a bride should wear at her wedding for good luck:
"It will not be long, now, till our wedding day." She went away from me, and she moved through the fair; Where hand-slapping dealers' loud shouts rent the air. The sunlight around her did sparkle and play, Saying, "…it will not be long, now, till our wedding day." When dew falls on meadow, and moths fill the night;
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Bridesmaids are members of the bride's party at some Western traditional wedding ceremonies. A bridesmaid is typically a young woman and often the bride's close friend or relative. She attends to the bride on the day of a wedding or marriage ceremony. Traditionally, bridesmaids were chosen from unwed young women of marriageable age. The ...