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2. Wedding invitation - Wikipedia

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   A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in the formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date. Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host—historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother of the bride, on ...

3. Marriage and wedding customs in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   The bride's attire is typically a custom-made white wedding gown and veil. [1] This is from the Anglo-American influence of dressing the woman in white on her wedding day. [2] A popular alternative is a white version of the Baro't saya, a form of national dress for Filipino women.

4. Wedding of Theodore Weld and Angelina Grimké - Wikipedia

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   Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina Emily Grimké, both devoted to the abolition movement, wed that evening at the house of Anna R. Frost, the bride's widowed sister. [3] : 232 The wedding was carefully planned, [4] : 288 and "designed to demonstrate, challenge and irritate". [1] Grimké "was getting married in a manner calculated to shock and ...

5. White wedding - Wikipedia

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   A bride from the late 19th century wearing a black or dark coloured wedding dress. Though Mary, Queen of Scots, wore a white wedding gown in 1559 when she married her first husband, Francis Dauphin of France, the tradition of a white wedding dress is commonly credited to Queen Victoria's choice to wear a white court dress at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.

6. Interracial marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of interracially married couples has increased from 310,000 in 1970 to 651,000 in 1980, to 964,000 in 1990, to 1,464,000 in 2000 and to 2,340,000 in 2008; accounting for 0.7%, 1.3%, 1.8%, 2.6% and 3.9% of the total number of married couples in those years, respectively.

7. Wedding - Wikipedia

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   Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriage vows by a couple, presentation of a gift (offering, rings, symbolic item, flowers, money, dress), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or celebrant. Special wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is sometimes followed by a wedding reception.