| 单词 | wed |
| 例句 | The shadow of the King's Spider and his little birds had him fretting like a maiden on her wedding night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He's wearing blue jeans, a kurta, and a saffron scarf draped around his neck—and is smiling as if he's about to officiate a wedding instead of a shradh ceremony. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps she stopped the buggy and picked them from a roadside field on the way to her wedding. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Hunt is in good spirits for the wedding, but he has been feeling poorly off and on for months now. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Will you attend me at my wedding, Reek?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There is much buildup to the engagement, and then the book ends quickly with a happy wedding. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she said slowly, “I thought one day I might have them set in earrings,” and fearing his laughter she said again, “I could have them for the younger girl when she is wed.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In the wedding registry of Alton, New Hampshire, they remained married, their contract a legal if desiccated thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom’s mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding. I’ll get the lights.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was no way he could miss stopping her wedding. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Helmuth is about to take a bite of wedding cake when Hugo says to him, "Wait and see, my boy. The war will be over, as soon as this matter is settled with Poland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Ten weeks in the hospital, and no one here knowing. But she promised we would meet you. At the wedding. And here you are.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nurse Cramer was a good- hearted, sentimental creature who rejoiced unselfishly at news of -weddings, engagements, births and anniversaries even though she was unacquainted with any of the people involved. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He put on his best frock-coat, the one he kept for weddings and funerals. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z He smelled the night air, the scent of jasmine and gardenias that had been planted everywhere for the wedding. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She asked me about the tent and the decorations, and the type of jewels in Shabnum's wedding necklace. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Coolness was wedded to discomfort in the form of hard X-rays. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z What happened was I went to this friend’s wedding, the reception, and drank a beer, one bottle of beer, and Nancy got to hear about it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke in anguish, but Jason rejoiced and raised her gently and embraced her, and promised her she would be his own wedded wife when once they were back in Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy invited Trout to his eighteenth wedding anniversary which was only two days hence. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A skeleton wedding, complete with priest and flower girls, marched across a lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z With nostalgia he glanced down at the wedding ring on his fifth finger that had once been hers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Bridget excuses herself to use the bathroom and when she emerges her wedding ring is absent from her finger. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The war had not ended until the day she and Lysa had been wed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I had to squeeze in the time for the quilt, for there was much to do to prepare for the wedding. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “What did you think of the wedding today?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z We found Mr. Govind beating his fists against the wall and moaning, “They have sent jasmine blossoms instead of marigolds! We will be short for the wedding!” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I point to the mirrored orb dangling in the center of the dance floor—if there were going to be dancing at this wedding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Wisdom for her wedding night if half of what he heard of Ramsay Snow was true. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Barb decides to plan a second wedding ceremony for she and her husband on Mommies tonight at 8:30 on Channels 7 and 10. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z "Well, Mrs. Olinski, my reason is the best of all. Fact: I was best man at their wedding." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Beverly was engaged to a young biology student, of whom her father very much approved; invitations to the wedding, scheduled for Christmas Week, were already printed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In their wedding photos, they both look subdued, as if stunned by their own daring. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was she who, on her own initiative, put aside the largest piece that she had cut from the wedding cake and took it on a plate with a fork to José Arcadio Buendía. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I said, “Don’t you want to see your mother wed?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” Heather continues, “okay, so a bowling alley. That’s...different. But you can still dress up; it’s a wedding!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z While Char and the knights discussed ogre transport, I thought about the wedding and despaired of getting there in time. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z "You know, Angela, we could have the wedding right here. . . . Turtle, where are you wandering off to now?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Since it was her left hand I looked particularly for a wedding ring, and saw that there was none. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw that love in the wall of wedding photos and birth certificates. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "If you say so. You and he were to wed." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Charles had written about this very idea in his notebooks before the wedding—“Belief allied to instinct.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Walowick said he hated weddings and funerals because all of his relatives got together and fought. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since when has the success of weddings been measured by how many governors attend?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She paused, glancing sideways across the kitchen to Mrs Boland, 'before the wedding.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When the conversation turned to the preparations for Hafsa’s sister’s wedding, everyone started talking at once, and I found it difficult to focus. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Gogol does not know to whom these children belong—half the guests are people his mother has befriended in recent years, people who were at his wedding but whom he does not recognize. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I heard his daughter was to wed some Frey.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z New friendships are blooming out of the wedding preparations, though. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I’ll never be able to have anything half so grand at my wedding.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “We are all looking forward to the movie of Ayesha’s wedding.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “First we do the arms deal and you secure The Corporation’s rights in the ROC. Then we’ll plan the wedding. Three days.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z To answer your question, I've seen him a couple of times since the wedding—probably twice a year or so. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I witnessed and was sometimes invited to join christening and baptism parties, communion and wedding lunches, graduation dinners, wakes and funeral receptions. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But as the wedding ceremony drew closer, the men’s attention was concentrated on the salon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at Ashima, her face leaner, the features sharper than they had been at their wedding, aware that her life in Cambridge, as his wife, has already taken a toll. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A week after the wedding I broke up with Nick—callously, I’m ashamed to say. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So one day they took back to their cave a delicately painted set of rice bowls, another day a little footstool with a velvet cushion and two new wedding blankets. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Naomi recognized the blue dress her mother had worn on their wedding day. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The dragon kings had wed brother to sister, but they were the blood of old Valyria where such practices had been common, and like their dragons the Targaryens answered to neither gods nor men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “You bought me a really stupid wedding gift.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The very next day, however, to Julie’s surprise, there was a wedding. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. On the morrow I will be a woman wed, and Hizdahr will be king. Let him hold court. These are his people.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sun was setting as they were led into the great hall for the wedding feast. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z And there in the trunk in the cabin, beneath the picture of Sairy in New York City, was a photo of Tiller and Sairy on their wedding day. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It was like a seal of stability, their wedding, because as long as they were married, his world with them was safe. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For all the frenzied preparations that went into the wedding night—most of it, blessedly, by Khanum Taheri and her friends— I remember only a handful of moments from it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Send your wife up to the wedding,” exclaimed the Doctor, foreseeing a happy solution. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth is that the message in her instructions failed because a week after he put the engagement ring on Neola’s finger, the soon-to-be-groom at her wedding left the state. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose the wedding is just a necessary extension of that. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I went to the village to buy firewood and food for the wedding feast. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Glossy bentwood furniture, throw rugs over hardwood floors, Southwest accents: an Anasazi-style wedding vase here, a Georgia O’Keeffe print there. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Lourdes remembers her own exodus, the watercolor landscape she wrapped in brown paper, her wedding veil and riding crops and the sack of birdseed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it very unfair that a bride should not have a coconut cake on the day of her own wedding. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I fashion them into a blond halo of tight curls, and create a cream wedding dress. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "Certain things are expected of a queen. They will be expected of you should you ever wed Joffrey. Best learn." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “He always helped me. “My wedding was the hardest thing ever, having to walk down the aisle without my dad.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Looking back on that day, I’m reminded of a story Loomis told me about his uncle in Macon who chauffeured a bride and groom around the state on their wedding trip. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In that courtyard we hosted countless weddings, birthdays, engagements, anniversaries, and every other kind of party you could imagine. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Polyneices won her over to his side by bribing her with the wonderful necklace that had been the wedding gift of his ancestress Harmonia, and she made her husband go to the war. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I knew Mr. French would be upset about the wedding. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They didn't have a wedding and Big Ma didn't bother to make them a fancy wedding dinner. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z There’s one part of the post-royal wedding arrangement left to fulfill: Henry’s presence at a state dinner at the end of January. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He wore a barong, a sheer ivory shirt made from pineapple fabric that Filipinos wear to weddings and baptisms and things. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But they had been quick enough to descend on Castle Black for the wedding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps my soul, now as calloused as my hands, could have borne such a wedding. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen,” Alex tells her, “royal weddings are trash, the princes who have royal weddings are trash, the imperialism that allows princes to exist at all is trash. It’s trash turtles all the way down.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As she and Henry walked side by side to the drugstore, she wondered if Maycomb was planning a fall or winter wedding for them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It said that I had to wear a tux to his wedding. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The wedding was held in the old castle. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll look something up. In one of those books we got for our wedding.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We were regular fixtures at each other's birthday parties, graduations, and weddings. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Papa had brought home a paper bagful of food not used at the wedding because some of the guests hadn’t come. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening she stepped from 52nd Street into the lobby of the Four Seasons, in the only nice dress she owned: one she’d worn to her cousin Debbie’s wedding the year before. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I think a lot about Bonnie and Twill, and the pile of white wedding dresses downstairs, and if Thread will figure out how I got back in and arrest me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z While he couldn’t give me particulars about the attack itself, it meant he would be more willing to talk about the events leading up to the wedding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Right around the time, I think to myself, an engagement would turn into a wedding. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Denton would be so hurt, her mother . . . the engagement was announced in the newspaper, the wedding gown, the shower . . . but once they found out she wasn't their perfect Angela . The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a child still, despite the ripeness of her thirteen years, and no doubt fancied a grand wedding even as I had done. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Every now and then someone in the house moved out, to live with a woman whom his family back in Calcutta had determined he was to wed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He always comes in one of those limousines Carla's only seen at weddings and when Trujillo goes by in a motorcade. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It was hot, and the wedding was outside. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The wedding was a reprieve for the family. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “The final straw was a wedding where a Wall Street executive tried to bill me for the wedding gown and medical expenses,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They protested, and it was hard to let them go after all wed been through, but I knew I had to do this last part of the quest by myself. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z My grandsons will joust with theirs, though, and one day their blood may wed with mine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Yeah, she’s just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat. I wish old Uncle Bilius was still with us, though; he was a right laugh at weddings.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Tell me about weddings,” Claire asked as she and Alys carried the nutcake they had made to the feast table, where it would be placed with the festive puddings and sweets. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At Audrey’s wedding, seeing my brothers in their suits, those black uniforms, my rage turned to fear, of some predetermined loss, and I forgave Shawn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At times I closed my eyes and fought hard to remember my two favorite photos of her—her wedding picture and her graduation picture. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “He’s gone to New York for Caroline’s wedding, Grandma.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagining Isabela in a wedding gown makes me laugh so hard I snort. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “And I also really wish the best for you and Anastasia on your wedding as well. I think all of us deserve a little happiness.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “The past, it fades a person. And yes. Today, it was a nice wedding.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “I will meet him on the isle Barri for the wedding, nine days from now. Go and tell him.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The song that fisherwomen sang to the sad young bride as they braided her hair and prepared her for her wedding to a man she didn’t love. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Grover was sitting at his loom, desperately unraveling his wedding train, when the boulder door rolled aside and the Cyclops bellowed, “Aha!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat in the living room with photos of Arize and Nnakwanze’s wedding on the oily wall, while Baby played with the children in the compound. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Agnes smiled demurely, pressing the tips of her fingers into Red’s palm and averting her eyes from the Associated Press photographer who was covering the wedding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dreams and prophecies. Why must they always be in riddles? I hate this. Oh, leave me, ser. Tomorrow is my wedding day.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Colette always flushes when we discuss the wedding. She is such a delicate creature. Sensitive nerves.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He thinks of his parents, strangers until this moment, two people who had not spoken until after they were actually wed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At the wedding feast that followed her face was the saddest any of the Aesir had ever seen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It would be a burden similar to one of Lucinda’s wedding gifts. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Did you see the picture of the lady with the wedding dress with sparkles all over the skirt? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Even the fact that it was a shotgun wedding didn’t spoil the day for her. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was one of those fancy white summer straw hats you see brides wear at their wedding receptions. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She wasn’t anxious to wed; in exchange for her consent, he paid her twenty KJs every day and served a white cake with every meal. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They wanted something less fruity than the truth, but truly, what is gayer than a woman who languishes away in a crumbling mansion wearing her wedding gown every day of her life, for the drama? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then the wedding, which would be paid for by Baba. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z After that all the friends and neighbors filed by—it was still more like a funeral than a wedding party—and shook hands with Grandpa, and either hugged Miss Love or clasped her hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The wedding was a circus, as I expected. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The queen of the rabbits must not be wed without herfloppy ears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “And then once we’ve stormed the castle we have to stop the wedding, steal the Princess and make our escape, allowing space somewhere in there for me to duel Count Rugen.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “His Patronus is a lynx, we saw it at the wedding, remember?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z His hands are folded on the tabletop, his fingers absently twisting his wedding band. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The cavern walls narrowed on either side, and I realized wed entered some kind of side tunnel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z After lunch, she removed her diamond engagement ring and her wedding band and locked them in her desk drawer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As we repair the fishnets we have fun guessing who Miss Ann Burras will pick if she gets permission to wed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I was far more excited about the prospect of my brother taking his wedding vows, in other words, than I was about reviewing what constituted a tort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But when the sun rose upon her wedding day so did Daario Naharis, donning his clothes and buckling on his sword belt with its gleaming golden wantons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Aren’t you going to arrange a wedding for her?” relatives would ask her parents. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At the foot of my bed is the bedspread that Hélène crocheted for our wedding. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When I first moved in, this would have been called “disordered behavior” and Jennifer’s voice would pitch up high and Dad would twist his wedding band around and around his finger. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Picking her out of this crowd at Grand Trunk is as difficult for me as identifying guests in my parents’ wedding album, where all the faces wear the disguise of youth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You were wearing these on our wedding day,” he said. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z “I ruined your wedding. I didn’t mean to. I swear.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, he didn't see the wagon handle, so he tripped on it, slid on the wet concrete, fell in the puddle of melted ice and, unfortunately, toppled the wedding cake. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The picture was of some sort of leprechaun wedding. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Yet Maa had finished embroidering the wedding sari, Baap had written a letter of acceptance to the bridegroom’s family, and my brothers began to treat me with respect, so I didn’t run away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z We had dinner afterward at Neptune’s because Mom couldn’t take the day off, not even for her son’s wedding. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For all she knew, he was out buying her a wedding gown. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They would be placed in bowls of punch for the wedding reception. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “With such a ruined rickshaw, you won’t get any business for weddings or other parties.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z His mother was seated on the chaise longue, resplendent in her own wedding dress, face clumsily coated with makeup. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “That was an awesome wedding. If everyone hadn’t gotten so worked up about money, it would’ve been the wedding of the decade.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “A bunch of people were killed at a wedding. Everyone dead, torn apart like rag dolls. Blue fire.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Did she come to these balls, as every other maiden did, hoping to wed a prince? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z If there was an attack, it would come at the busiest time, during the wedding, so he would have to move that up. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Mama says Minerva should be glad, since a rainy wedding is suppose to bring good luck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next time Maria visited—and she’d have to come to Steven and Emilia’s wedding in two months—Matt would hit her between the eyes with this evidence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This wedding could well be just some ruse to lure Stannis into a trap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z About a month in, he allowed Citra to attend her aunt’s wedding. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Ma would have liked to have sewn Caroline’s wedding dress from ten different patterns in a bridal magazine, taking the sleeves from one dress, the collar from another, and the skirt from another. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Then why do you look like you’re going to a funeral instead of your friend’s wedding?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In late May, my parents, siblings, and I all came together in Rwanda for Adele’s wedding. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We decided to have an American wedding, too, at the First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles, outside Syracuse. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a glamorous reenactment of a wedding, with a “bride and groom” surrounded by dancing girls and drumming boys. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I just think of day I sell my wedding kimono! I did not want to sell!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She also found the mask I’d worn at Father’s wedding, white with tiny white beads along its edges. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I’ve personally witnessed several family rifts because so-and-so didn’t invite so-and-so to their wedding even though they had the nerve to invite a family friend. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “You remember Elizabeth? She had you in her wedding?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Whether it was about a wedding or a new baby or a kid who got accepted into a great college or a family member who had passed away, Abuela was always there to listen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z ‘I’m going to be the flower boy at your wedding, right?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I was back to work a week after the wedding. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded," said Sansa, "and to bear children for the king-" The queen gave a wry smile. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell your dad right away. We can have the wedding here next week.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I may be a young girl, but I am not so foolish as to wed a man who finds a fruit platter more enticing than my breast. I saw which dancers you were watching.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A woman, they say, always remembers her wedding night. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z "Besides, nobody gets married anymore, and if they do, they don't wear silly wedding dresses." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z This is generally why Iranian weddings are so big. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t know your fellow well, but he impressed me greatly. Any man who can find his way through the Fire Swamp can find his way to Florin Castle before your wedding day.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “You’ll wed at Winterfell. I shall inform the lords that we march in three days and invite them to accompany us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Anastasia and I have changed our date, because it’s just not fair to you. We’re getting married the Saturday after your mom’s wedding.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Maybe she thought that I was not curious about her because I did not ask her about her wedding, which neither Mother nor I attended. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z So she sat in her wedding silks, nursing a cup of honeyed wine, afraid to eat, talking silently to herself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z From there, after purchasing by check a diamond engagement ring and a diamond wedding band, they drove to a pawnshop to dispose of these items. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a wedding scene near the end. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Are you going to try on your wedding dresses?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I received her wedding cards about Dec. 10,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a year or so after the wedding, when Mother was expecting her first baby, that Dad confided to her his secret conviction that all of their children would be girls. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a bonfire in the courtyard of the dolls of Remedios which had decorated their bedroom since their wedding. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “The wedding will last a week,” he says, watching me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days after the wedding, Reverend Hunt takes to his bed again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She hummed the wedding march while she rocked him, only sometimes she had to press her lips together to keep from laughing out loud. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z No sooner had Leon placed the wedding ring on Lonna’s finger than the boy kicked off his shiny black shoes and ran away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A wedding was promised, a wedding will be given. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother agreed to marry my grandfather because she never thought she’d live to see the wedding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I want to give you a wedding shower,” I said to Caroline in the cab on the way to Eric’s house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Six-way wedding since we have three couples. Get your mind out of the gutter, Big Ben.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z "I was," she answered, standing over the dragon's eggs that lllyrio had given her when she wed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “We have decided to have the wedding next month,” Olanna told him a few days later. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a traditionally Hasidic wedding, with the men and women sitting separately and with a lot of dancing and singing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z We take wedding attire as seriously as Anna Wintour takes the Met Gala. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He arrived at the Mount to get ready for the wedding, and wrote to her at Maer. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And only an hour behind schedule, which is basically on time for an Indian wedding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z So that evening, when his father offered a wedding gift, the young king asked for the paper inside the mouth of the tiger statue. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “I haven’t been to a wedding in a while. But when I was in Pakistan, we were dancing around one day to be silly, and my cousin showed us something like this.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “Maybe you not so dumb after all,” he said to me after the wedding ceremony. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She wears a white shirt, a blue sweater, light makeup on her brown skin, a simple wedding ring, and an endless smile. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z That night she went to bed with a few Polaroids of the wedding photos and the roses by her bed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Idiot. I came straight from the wedding. I didn’t want to risk the traffic of going home first to change.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It must have been wine they had saved for a wedding. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The joke was that at my wedding my grandfather would see I had all the caviar I could eat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after the wedding, she held herself back. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “You realized there was never going to be a wedding?” asks Caesar gently. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It contained the pearl studs that Katie had given him for a wedding present. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the rings was a wedding ring. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Margarita looks too pregnant for only two months since the wedding. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Over meals they talked about plans for a huge wedding in Cleveland Heights—a two-day bash, lots of flowers. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The talk was she would soon he wed to one of the queen's cousins, so the Lannisters might claim her lands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The closer the wedding got the more down she was. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Shahnaz Auntie, the bride’s mother, looks grim, probably worried about her daughter’s reaction to the wedding night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “A really stupid and expensive wedding gift. But it was still a gift.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s placed Carlos’s drawing of me next to her and Grandpa’s wedding picture. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He imagined the convent girls dressed in fine clothes, like the bridesmaids at Emilia’s wedding. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if an old man who just buried his wife would take his bride on a wedding trip. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Like Mrs. B crying happy tears when she heard the song from her sister’s wedding. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z One Eastern European woman, Iloba had told him, had asked the Nigerian man, an hour before their court wedding, to give her a thousand pounds extra or she would walk away. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Once we would have said, Mr. Pecksniff quitted the firm, betted on the horses, and wetted his whistle, then wedded his sweetheart in a suit that fitted him perfectly. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But first, they had to wear the wedding dresses or the troll would shut down the challenge. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The signs of our elopement were subtle: My parents’ wedding picture was gone, as was the grainy photograph of my grandfather and King Nader Shah standing over the dead deer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Hatsue would remember on the day of her wedding that her first kiss had been from this boy, Ishmael Chambers, while they clung to a glass box and floated in the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Six weeks ago, at the American consul’s, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn’t forget dear little Beth.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Any old color is fine; just don’t wear a wedding dress or your torn shorts. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The wedding will be in Calcutta, a little over a year from now, on an auspicious January day, just as she and her husband were married nearly thirty- four years ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You should plan your wedding, not your funeral. Don’t be morbid.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “There’s no better place to pick up wedding knickknacks than Wal-Mart,” she said as she got out of the car. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z So the anniversary of her wedding day became known as the Fast of Lysara, when young girls made wishes upon their clean linen pillows to dream of their true love. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “She uses it as an announcement at weddings and—funerals.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Billy Pilgrim could not sleep on his daughter’s wedding night. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she call the store about a wedding present, talking, talking, talking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The man was dressed as if he was going to a wedding. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “No rain will come, nothing will happen until the wedding is over,” he said, when Ugwu took him a plate of rice and meat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Those are the same clothes you wore for the wedding.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I thought I might even wear my mother’s wedding dress. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It had ruffles around the neck and cuffs and looked like it could have been her greatgrandmother’s wedding gown. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “No,” I said, lifting my hand in a fist and showing him my wedding ring. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a dusty wedding favor made of two plastic wedding rings in one of the shadows, so I pick it up. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I tucked my thumb and Papa’s wedding band into my palm. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Only after exhausting all the other stories of the wedding did they broach the topic that occupied both of their minds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They settled into the large Empire-styie bed, talking about the wedding party and making plans for their future life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My stepfamily was not invited to the wedding and had to celebrate, if they wished, in the streets with the rest of Frell. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, you guys are all invited to the wedding. I’ll plan it so that the wedding will be after the last guy in the squad leaves Nam.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z People from faraway villages would line up at our home, asking for lucky dates for weddings and predictions for their children. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I heard that Jenny had a nice wedding and a healthy baby boy, so all’s well that ends well.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z After the wedding had ended abruptly, Felix had gone back to his hotel room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z She took her job so seriously, she would try to wed off anything with a pulse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Santiago’s family lives just outside of Quito, and their house is full of activity, people preparing for the wedding. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “With our great thanks. After all, Fayge and I will be returning here for the wedding night and she will see them then.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "Like you probably have a few gold watches in your pockets, and I have some wedding bands and rolls of cash." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I had no idea a channel exists that features nothing but weddings and bridal gowns and honeymoon possibilities. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z If we were having the wedding in Chicago, there was no trimming the guest list. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ten years we were wed, or near enough as makes no matter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z You would never know they had such meager beginnings, these veils, bow ties, even wedding rings braided from machine wire. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He found the long-sleeved white shirt that he had once worn to Cousin Linda’s wedding, and the dark brown trousers that went with it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Ivory Christian acted like a bride at the wedding, each step slow and measured, luxuriating in the applause and the hundreds of eyes beckoning to him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “But sometimes one man can be both o. This is the season of weddings. When will it be my turn, Father Lord?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Peaches’ mama had her hair done real nice, up off her neck, and she was so beautiful that I cried, which was no big thing because I always cry at weddings. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Eric is meeting us there,” Caroline said, “since it’s bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Tossed the wedding china, the silver, the photographs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She blushed, “I'm not of a mind to wed,” she murmured. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If prom didn't work out, I could always wear it to a family wedding. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When he pushed die door open, three of the four candles fluttered out He led the bride into the mist, where the wedding guests were waiting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Mother wore that necklace to her wedding,” I said, hoping to deflect her thoughts. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after the wedding, Mom’s brother, my uncle Jim, died in Arizona. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Veronica. I haven’t heard you called that since our wedding day.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not unlike the tiara Fleur had worn at her wedding. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Mulefa couples, for example, on entering marriage, would exchange strips of bright copper, which were bent around the base of one of their horns with much the same meaning as a wedding ring. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mary gave one to each of her daughters on their wedding day with instructions that the crosses were to be passed on to the first daughter in each succeeding generation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I remember, when we came for the wedding. Your dad always did the dishes. He wouldn’t let me help at all. Your dad is so sweet.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I mailed out the invitations for Caroline’s wedding shower. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z At the word wedding the innkeeper’s scowl turned stony. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But Tall Andras rubbed his hand across his thick blond beard, looked across the marketplace to where Water Claire stood fingering ribbons at a stall, and said to his mates, “She could be wed.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On one occasion Fernanda had the whole house upset because she had lost her wedding ring, and Úrsula found it on a shelf in the children’s bedroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He’d been dragged along by Pappa and Ma to some Indian acquaintances wedding in San Diego. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When the telephone rang, we were sitting at the kitchen table planning a trip to Scotland to celebrate my parents’ wedding anniversary. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z "Besides," she said, "I think that making the wedding is enough of a present." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z After what seemed like a few million pictures, the wedding finally began. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z If you were unfamiliar with the story of Oedipus Rex and I simply said, “Sophocles play story kill Laius wife Jocasta wed Oedipus father mother,” you wouldn’t guess what happened in a million years. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “When you have one of these,” Alex says, sidling up to him, “you should do two champagne fountains instead of one. Really embarrassing to be at a wedding with only one champagne fountain.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I gazed at the wedding hall from a nearby hill, where we’d stopped to rest. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I pressed Nasreen Baji's clothing that night and hung them in her armoire while she reclined on her bed and listened to me describe the wedding. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As Dany nibbled on an olive, the Naathi girl gazed at her with eyes like molten gold and said, “It is not too late to tell them that you have decided not to wed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She must not wed, they said firmly, until the sea gave her back what it had stolen, until she knew what her life had once been. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But almost from the beginning they agreed on an approach to their relationship, a motto now engraved inside their wedding rings: “Press on regardless.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Some white people who knew a little about our beliefs wondered if wed be able to stand it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It also reminded me of my wedding, when I had repeated endless Sanskrit verses after the priest, verses I barely understood, which joined me to my wife. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I have a thing about wedding dresses, you know? Ever since I was a bitty girl.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z How could he go in with his wedding feast on his arm, and say, “I have come for a woman?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "Lord Walder is well, my lady. He plans to take a new wife on his ninetieth name day, and has asked your lord father to honor the wedding with his presence." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I pick up a few remembrances: a photo of my parents on their wedding day, a blue hair ribbon for Prim, the family book of medicinal and edible plants. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Thanks to his warning most of the wedding guests were able to Disapparate before they arrived.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “She’s got a photo shoot next week modeling wedding dresses. What am I supposed to tell her stylist?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She had two wedding invitations, one for me and one for my parents. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They even handed over their wedding rings, which were replaced with copper bands that bore the national seal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And when Brandon was murdered and Father told me I must wed his brother, I did so gladly, though I never saw Ned’s face until our wedding day. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It was child’s play, winning this fortune. Now, if all of you will excuse me, my bride and I need to go home for our wedding night.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z On the wedding day itself, the father gives away his daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, it’s not that,” she says and I think, Then it must be something about the wedding. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z However, during the days the villagers held animal fights there, and sometimes even weddings and funerals. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Ms. Newberry, from across the hall, didn’t have a wedding ring, either. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The next month was the wedding and it turned out so good! 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents showed their approval by making the long trip from Rass to attend our schoolhouse wedding. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother’s next letter included photos of her wedding. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Beatrice didn’t even learn Lonna’s last name until the day of the wedding. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Maa sat with a length of red muslin for my wedding sari on her lap. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after he went to sleep that night, Billy traveled in time to another moment which was quite nice, his wedding night with the former Valencia Merble. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I only need enough for a week or so. But I need to borrow a sleeping skin and ground cloth. I’ll mail them back when I get where I’m going. “They’re a wedding present.’’ Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For my grandmother, the very first time she saw the face of the man she was marrying was in their wedding mirror. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In the lone, faded, wedding photograph, she is looking directly into the camera, her eyes serious and somber, her small body robed in a full-sleeved, polka- dot wedding dress. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In my family, the funeral meats have always furnished the wedding tables. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Despite my anger at Sass I longed to give Chandra something for her wedding. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z There will be a big wedding where Kareem rides in on a white horse and I will be garlanded in gold and roses and jasmine. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Anxiously, she turned and looked at the man Viserys hoped would ask to wed her before the night was done. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Everything is covered with a fluffy layer of white, like a wedding cake you don’t want to cut into. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z And when it was done and the wedding day set, he rested and sat in the sun and slept even as his father had done before him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z For one thing, she thought white people had small, subdued weddings, not major celebrations like in our tribe. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There were murmurs of concern and sympathy among the crowd, all of whom had attended their spring wedding. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Did you tell her how Kasim always falls in love and wants to buy wedding rings for his girlfriends?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Nobody made her name up, Michael. She was at our wedding.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z "Dancing Queen" plays at every family wedding, and my female cousins and I push our way onto the dance floor to link arms and sway in a circle together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “She is my daughter after all. This is just the way I was on the day of my wedding.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z "The wedding, you mean?" said Victoria, and her eyes shone with pride and delight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Robin Bergland, a young florist who moved here from Manhattan, has stopped providing flowers for weddings. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He also wanted Mommy to come to his wedding. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Septa Scolera echoed, “and you must feel so much lighter now, clean and innocent as a maid on the morning of her wedding.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I had no idea there could be so many wedding stores in just one city. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Rosaleen offered to bake the wedding cake layers, and Violet and Queenie were going to decorate it with a “rainbow theme.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there was lunch to make and, after lunch, work to be done on the bridesmaids’ dresses for Beverly’s wedding, which she had designed and was sewing herself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Surprised he didn’t wear that to the wedding.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They looked around for a wedding present and decided to give Katie the fine pillow they had bought for Andy and which he had used so briefly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A short time after she pursued—“I seed you go out with the master, but I didn’t know you were gone to church to be wed;” and she basted away. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The news of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's wedding was everywhere. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z To arrange a wedding in my culture, the man’s family gives the woman’s family a dowry, usually a number of cows in exchange for the woman’s hand. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It is crowded with gray-faced women twisting their wedding rings and watching the doors for a familiar doctor. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z From careful watching, they’d read his name tag; from Davis’s wedding band, they knew he was married. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached under the wedding crowns and the hair braids to come up with something Chapter Eleven hadn’t seen: a silver spoon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Not only Leon to consider, but what of the antique peach and cream satin dress that her mother was looking out for her, for Arabella’s wedding? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “If you can’t beat them, you’re going to join them,” my mother said when I nervously announced my wedding from a phone booth in Reno. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had lent me the aluminum-cased one from her own wedding dowry. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z There were wedding rings, baby bracelets, radios, televisions, necklaces, engraved watches, old- fashioned spoons and knives, scarves, pins, coins, and other junk that was left behind for Doiia Ramonita to resell. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z All three of the sons of the fifth Aegon had wed for love, in defiance of their father’s wishes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wedding feast was a pretense of celebration. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "We go home with an army, sweet sister. With Khal Drogo's army, that is how we go home. And if you must wed him and bed him for that, you will." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Perhaps for the only time in her life, during those days leading up to her wedding, Nana had been genuinely happy. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Here comes our feast,” Muthu said as a man came and stuffed some bags into the dumpster outside the back gate of the wedding hall. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Since his marriage to little Lady Ermesande three days past, the other squires had taken to calling him "Wet Nurse" and asking him what scut of swaddling clothes his bride wore on their wedding night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The Centaurs, creatures who each had the body of a horse and the chest and face of a man, were related to the bride and came to the wedding. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For me and Suzanne, it was supposed to go like this: We’d be the maids of honor at each other’s weddings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Shall I wash your hair? It is almost time. Reznak mo Reznak and the Green Grace are coming to discuss—” “—the wedding preparations.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and made a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The red Banarasi wedding sari and the gold had been bought two years ago, for her wedding to Graham. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A number of First Daughters’ weddings had taken place in the East Room. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After that happy-ever-after wedding, they never tell you the rest of the story. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Koster averts her eyes, staring down at the new wedding band on her finger, and I have a new, ugly suspicion. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “You forget,” he said, “I had that sort of wedding before.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “If I could, I’d skip the wedding and stay with you.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We were the first heroes to return alive to Half-Blood Hill since Luke, so of course everybody treated us as if wed won some reality-TV contest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Something like our wedding cake was, with a girl in white on top...and a boy.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z During this time before the wedding, she visited with her friends, wrote letters to Charles, and looked forward to letters from him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Not for their weddings or their babies or their graduations. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Maya’s mom is holding her hands so tight that Maya can feel her wedding ring branding itself into her skin. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I regarded with awe the ‘wedding ring’ on a nun’s finger, her black ‘wedding veil’—symbols of marriage to God. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z McShane had given her a checking account with a thousand dollars in it as a wedding present. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z During that time between his proposal and their wedding day, Gramps and his father and brothers built a small house in the clearing behind the first meadow. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Any time after I’m thin again. We want to have a splendid wedding with every one thinking what a handsome young couple.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Thankful’s wedding was the first festivity Wethersfield had enjoyed since the sickness. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing his brown suit—his only suit, the same one he wore to Afghan weddings and funerals—and the red tie I had bought for his fiftieth birthday that year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Jesus Christ,” he screamed, as if he had been saving this oath since his wedding day for just such an occasion. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry looked at him, startled; the idea that anything as normal as a wedding could still exist seemed incredible and yet wonderful. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Every speck of anything that might become a wedding memory, she tosses in there—stuff like jewelry designs and invitation ideas and flower arrangement choices and photos of gowns. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z "Have you noticed that almost every day now, there's a wedding?" he says. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Tessie took a breath and announced, “I’m going to call off the wedding.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Why, just as rich as we were before. Silly goose, did you think weddings caused our coffers to grow?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Within two weeks Cyrus had wooed, wedded, bedded, and impregnated her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the real world, people don't build wedding cakes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I can wear the same dress to both weddings—I won’t even have to change! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She fussed interminably with the brides of the newly wed couples for not getting their men’s supper ready on time; about how to launder shirts, press them, etc “Yo’ man be here direc’lin. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I thought of our wedding night, gazing at each other’s reflection in the mirror under the green veil, and how her cheeks blushed when I whispered that I loved her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A few weeks before the wedding, they were out to dinner with friends, getting happily drunk, and she heard Graham talking about their time in Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Biff turned the wedding ring on his finger. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Ten months later, after recounting this exchange to two dozen wedding guests in the basement of Grace Lutheran Church, Lil raises her glass in a toast. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She reminded him of Sansa Stark, the child bride he had wed and lost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I saw your father and your mother wed as well. Forgive me, but there was no fondness there, and the realm paid dearly for that, my queen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There, squished in between a wedding announcement and an article about yet another double murder at the Coltrane Projects, was a black-and-white picture of the thing that had attacked her last night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Scarcely a man now alive had yet been bom when Malleon had compiled his dusty lists of weddings, births, and deaths. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I rode up there with her, wearing Grandpa Dowdel’s wedding suit because Ray wouldn’t ride on a float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The woman was white, and she wanted a small wedding at an inn. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to go to the stupid wedding anyway. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She arrived at Ranyinudo’s flat with a pile of newspapers, full of photographs of the big wedding she had just planned. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg’s wedding... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She should be eager with anticipation for her wedding and the night that would follow, she knew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He bounded up the few stairs to the verandah, holding his soutane up like a bride holding a wedding dress. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When he tells her that he isn’t even thirty, she tells him that by that age she had already celebrated her tenth wedding anniversary. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One night, my parents went out to some wedding dance. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The final frame is his parents’ wedding photo. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z That was my baby sister’s first wedding dance.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It was easy because he had a new girlfriend, Emily, and there was talk of a wedding. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The German officer pulled the necklace from my mother’s neck, and twisted her wedding ring from her finger. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They had dressed her in the white gown and crown of wax orange blossoms that were being saved for her wedding day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since everyone who knew the secret would be at the wedding, the Chandrian can come in, kill everyone who knows anything, and either destroy or steal whatever it is.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Roza and I have just finished playing for a wedding here in the concert hall. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But for the rest of her life she advocated small weddings in ordinary clothes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Arch is the best fighter of the three of us,” Drinkwater had pointed out, “but only you can hope to wed the dragon queen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She would pawn her wedding ring when the time drew close, as well as the other jewelry that Rasheed had given her the year before when she was still the malika of his palace. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She stood there helpless and trembling in her wedding silks while he secured the horses, and when he turned to look at her, she began to cry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I lay back and thought of August, our wedding, and how we’d make a big nest for the storks above our cottage, just like the nest I had seen on top of the barn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Most are invited to attend the white children’s weddings, but only if they’re in their uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “What? You get Apex-7 for the wedding, but I get penguins? I’ve been to the aquarium. Penguins reek like rotten fish. No, thank you.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z There were also two officers from the Homicide Squad, who took photographs of the wedding couple. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She always does, and Ma receives it as if she'd just caught a wedding bouquet. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Doors slammed, and three policemen leaped out of the car and walked up to the wedding party’s vehicles. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A good wedding was an unacknowledged representation of the as yet unthinkable—sexual bliss. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Ishmael’s grandfather had been a Highland Presbyterian, his grandmother an Irish zealot from the bogs above Lough Ree; they met in Seattle five years before the Great Fire, wed, and raised six sons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t know that I could wed one of them even under the best of conditions. People might snicker that she was the best I could do.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Two days after that first early morning visit, Mary’s niece, Nicey’s daughter, was moments from walking down the aisle for her wedding. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I had never been to the restaurant Genesis and had only been to the hotel Nike Lake when Papa’s business partner had a wedding reception there. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Our wedding anniversary was on February 19, and though usually in Pátzcuaro we went out to dinner, we didn’t have the money for that here. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Most of them still hoped to wed her, bed her, and rule the Vale of Arryn by her side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her gold bangles from her wedding dowry, the ones she never removed because they were her most valuable possessions, clinked against her arms when she touched me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The only Mary story we talked about was the wedding story— the time she persuaded her son, practically against his will, to manufacture wine in the kitchen out of plain water. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his mother, preoccupied with last-minute wedding details, had forgotten to call him first thing in the morning, as she normally did. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They were pleased with everything and keen to assist with the preparations for the wedding. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The last time she had seen him he had been jesting with her uncle at her wedding feast; the Mallisters stood bannermen to the Tullys, and his gifts had been lavish. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For their reception, they had a zaffa, an Arabic wedding procession. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The photographer met us at the wedding grove at the Botanic Garden. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “We missed the fun of the wedding, you know, it’s a shame to deprive us of all excitement. Hands up for the Manderley fancy dress ball. There you see, de Winter? Carried unanimously.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Early medieval Jews, both in Spain and in Babylon, were wed firmly to Aristotle’s doctrines. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Bollywood-ized suburban wedding hall feels pretty cinematic, yet the thought of the awkward social situations to come makes me turn back and look longingly at the doors. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “So,” she said to him, “it seems that I may wed again. Are you happy for me, ser?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dad wasn’t there, as he had already gone to Rwanda to help Adele prepare for the wedding. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “So, you came straight here after the wedding?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z On their tenth wedding anniversary, Mr. McCullough took her to Giovanni’s, her favorite restaurant, and as they entered, a vastly pregnant woman waddled up behind them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s like a beautiful cake baked for a wedding that never happened. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “This is the prettiest wedding dress I have ever seen,” she answered, holding her stomach to ease the pain from laughing so much. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “You will. When the appointed day arrives, you will speak your wedding vows, else you will join the silent sisters and never speak again.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Healed by him, Arabella chooses judiciously this time, and is rewarded by reconciliation with her family and a wedding with the medical prince on “a windy sunlit day in spring.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Did you hear the latest on the wedding drama?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He is due to go to the Netherlands at the end of March and will stay there until April 18, their wedding day. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “He told me to show up at this wedding. It’s a lot more rural than I expected, but...” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She showed us her wedding album, one picture at a time, and said, “Wasn’t I slim and beautiful?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he thought they had not left the wedding after all: They still seemed to be surrounded by people. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Even on the day before her wedding, the seamstresses took in her bodice, begging her to eat and fill out her gown. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Must I believe none of Hamlet’s promises to me, neither his loving words nor his wedding vows? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “It is only dawn, sweet queen. The day is long. Time enough for one last sortie. I will bring you back the head of Brown Ben Plumm for a wedding gift.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, I shall ask you to begin with this cocktail, composed—would you say ‘composed?’ ” with an appeal to Miss Mayblunt —“composed by my father in honor of Sister Janet’s wedding.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Caroline looked down at her finger, admiring her wedding band. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The night before my sister’s wedding in Rwanda, we attended a big party to celebrate the giving away of the bride. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “My mother and his brother thought we were to be wed,” she says, seeming as though she might be talking to the air and not to me at all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His wedding coat, maybe, so old it was. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And Faye rolled her wedding band around and around on her fat little finger. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We were married in a civil ceremony requiring only signatures and a witness at the Native Commissioner’s Court in Johannesburg, for we could not afford a traditional wedding or feast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at photos from our wedding, which Janine had brought along. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For their wedding, he had imagined perfection, the house in Nsukka festively decorated, the crisp white tablecloth laden with dishes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A green and orange dragger, black in the night, grumbled and drummed past their balcony, not thirty feet from their wedding bed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a magnificent thing, a gift from Domingo on Yeste’s wedding day. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve always bragged about you two as being the ‘greatest pair of brains ever wedded in holy matrimony,’” an old Army friend wrote after reading the book, “and I never was wrong.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Hagrid, who was invited to the wedding the following day, but was far too bulky to sleep in the overstretched Burrow, left to set up a tent for himself in a neighboring field. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She suddenly remembered sliding the thin band of silver—her grandmother’s wedding ring—up and down her granny’s thin fingers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mama spun her wedding ring around her finger. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Not long before my wedding, she’d been promoted to the role of commissioner in charge of planning and economic development for the city and had offered me a job as an assistant commissioner. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My parents met for the first time on the day of their wedding—an arranged marriage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z All the same, though, wherever I happen to be, I don’t think I’m the type that doesn’t even lift a finger to prevent a wedding from flatting. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He hadn’t meant to make his mom feel bad or to keep her from buying Georgie a wedding gown. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Through the window, the bride and groom on the wedding cake point at me and laugh—the air becomes charged with laughter until I can’t stand it—and the two cupids wave their flaming arrows. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “I shall have a grand wedding,” I would say. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They were temporary tattoos that women wore during celebrations like weddings and festivals. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z To end a twelve-year friendship like this, while she sat in my kitchen with a wedding invitation in her hand. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I was still perplexed as I helped Gertrude prepare for her wedding. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Have you heard anything about a wedding around these parts?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Once I am wed it will be high treason to desire me.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “My wedding was a disaster and even included a literal tornado. We hid in a bathroom for a half hour. I should have seen it as a sign of things to come.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “It must be after 5:30 by now; half an hour left to stop the wedding.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It had a gold wedding ring and tufts of blondish hair. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Next to the pharmacy was a printer who specialized in gold-embossed wedding invitations and festive red banners. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His first large order is from a governor who wants a thousand cream puffs for the wedding of his daughter—Tamar. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “So what are we going to tell our parents? I’m pretty sure my mom already has the wedding invitations picked out.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z "When she comes of age, she can wed little Lord Robert. Until such time, she'll be Lady Lysa's ward at the Eyrie." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The first thing we get is not trouble, but a wedding. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She looked down as she went to twist her wedding ring and realized it wasn’t there. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Despite reservations on Coin’s side that it’s too extravagant, and on Plutarch’s side that it’s too drab, the wedding is a smash hit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Behind it were small offices for an inmate photographer, who snapped keepsake Polaroid pictures, and a counselor who could help with matters such as weddings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a picture of my parents’ wedding night, Baba dashing in his black suit and my mother a smiling young princess in white. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Because the Mehtas were anxious to have the ceremony as soon as possible, the astrologer was told to be quick in fixing an auspicious date for the wedding. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, with an uprising in District Eight, I doubt he’s spending much time choosing my wedding cake!” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A month for the wedding was agreed upon. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry’s parents’ wedding. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When she finished her speech, Justice Strauss turned to Count Olaf and asked, “Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z When it’s announced that children are wanted to sing District 4’s wedding song, practically every kid shows up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Lunelle had been commissioned to make her a wedding hat, which I thought was very courageous of June. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I went out today and got myself a wedding present,” Caroline said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z This particular portion of the wedding ceremony turns gender roles in the Iranian culture on their head. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They were going to have a civil ceremony and then they would take some pictures in the wedding grove at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Your new grand-daughter,” said Beatrice; “you ask her what I gave her for a wedding present.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Yellow flowers everywhere. And a spring yellow dress, like a normal wedding dress only yellow. And he would wear a yellow cummerbund.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z At weddings, he danced with his arms spread wide like he was going to embrace the whole party. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Her only child’s wedding—die culmination of all she had been, thought or done in this world— had dragged from her energy and stamina even die did not know she possessed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A wedding band shone conspicuously on one pink hand; he had a conspicuous smell of after-shave. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The other stories end with the fatal wedding night and her imprisonment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was traded in for the price of six goats and a cow for my eldest sister's wedding. My parents promised they'd come back to get me as soon as they repaid him.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “You barely make me go to the mosque, except for religious holidays or weddings.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z When she confessed, with a poem, that she had not truly fallen in love with him until after the wedding, it shook him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “We were sure we could work something out, but even with her wedding jewelry, the tractor, the television...Even if we sold them all, it wouldn’t be enough. Not even close.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Ten days after their wedding, he had to return to school, while my mom waited to get her visa so she could join him in Louisiana. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For the wedding, Mom wore a traditional African dress—long and formfitting, in shades of blue and purple—and Dad wore a classic dress shirt and pants. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A mistake in calculation spoiled the one she considered the most effective: removing the mothballs that Rebeca had put in her wedding dress before she put it away in the bedroom dresser. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z After the ceremony, a piece of the wedding cake was wrapped up for the bride to bring to the groom’s ancestral home for the second part of the wedding. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One could only imagine how His Grace had responded to the notion of a second wedding in the midst of his war. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And Dr. Muthachen, who had to be removed from his own wedding in a sack. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a photo over their TV of the Hickmans' wedding. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She smelled his face on his wedding day, his tears when his son drowned at the park. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right. And the ring the one on a chain around your neck. Is that your wedding band?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I still don’t understand how we went from superheroes to an Indian wedding party,” Bridge said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z She has taken off her iron wedding bracelet, forcing it from her hand with cold cream, along with all the other bracelets she’s always worn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When the day for the wedding came, Chandra and I hid by the window so that we could get a glimpse of the bridegroom. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It was morning in the desert, and Julia had already gotten out of bed and was boiling coffee on a propane stove wed set up on the tailgate of Cade’s pickup. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z On their thirtieth wedding anniversary, George gave Margaret a check for one hundred dollars, along with a note scribbled on the back of an aluminum oxide wrapper: “Next 30 years not as rough. Love, George.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Papa’s hand came down to me, holding his gold wedding band. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z JT handed me one of the pencils and our fingers touched and I could almost hear the wedding bells. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "A pity I'm a woman wed, and new with child." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In September 1996, my grandmother and my grandfather celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were married in an aspen grove on a clear July day, and afterward they and all their friends and relatives had a wedding supper on the banks of the river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z And romantic stories: how Potter Palmer had been so in love with his wife, Bertha, that he had given her a luxurious hotel, the Palmer House, as a wedding present. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Halfway through the song, the wedding party was asked to join them, and Felix’s mom dragged him onto the wooden dance floor. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Muhammad’s the one getting giddy with the wedding prep, while she stays silent. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Imagining him at his wedding left her with a feeling like sorrow, a faded sorrow. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She hung these in the living room, near the wedding pictures. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She pestered us for details of our own weddings: the jewels, the invitations, the scent of tuberoses strung over the nuptial bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They might even invite her to the wedding. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told you they weren’t having a wedding,” I said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “We have spoken of this. I will not be at your wedding, but you must wear this. I make with my own hand,” she said to Hanako. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "Angela, dear, you have a fitting this afternoon," Grace reminded her, "and we have so much to do for the wedding shower on Saturday." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt heard the wedding march, and Senator Mendoza took Emilia by the arm. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “She should be counting your curls, not her gifts. We will load the chickens in the wagon with the other wedding gifts. Those schnorrers in Viosk will not think we do not honor our own.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But when she came to her wedding she was carried to the altar to be killed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It is made of tarnished, dull metal, an Abnegation wedding band. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z If Meereen knew that a wedding was in the offing, that alone might buy her a few nights’ respite, even if Hizdahr’s efforts came to naught. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He looked somehow smaller and more vulnerable, like the youth she had wed in the sept at Riverrun, fifteen long years gone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I am a woman wed,” she reminded him, afterward. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She had always assumed that she would wed Viserys when she came of age. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A month after her wedding, she wrote in wonder, “Is it possible I am to have them, after all—Youth, and Love, and Life?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “No. It would be horrible to miss the wedding. The church.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In flight, he is nature’s ultimate wedding of form and purpose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace Windsor Wexler was supervising the fitting of her daughter's wedding dress from the beige velvet couch. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z When are you to be married, and where, and who is to perform the ceremony, and what are you to wear, and is it to be a public or a private wedding? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Not as if she didn’t have other plans for her wedding night.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Maybe the tragedy began on the day of my wedding, then. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the wedding day, Magistrate Tiger bragged to his son about how he had arranged the marriage and outwitted the Old Man of the Moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “So ... no wedding for Prince Frog. Is that why you’ve come hopping back to me? Have my three brave Domish lads decided to honor their contracts?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I want him and me to graduate together, and then there’s the whole summer for weddings.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He looks at the photograph taken at their wedding, in which matching garlands hang from their necks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Staring wistfully at a store window filled with wedding dresses. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Fayge’s white wedding dress was badly stained, front and back, and she was as pale as paper. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I returned to the wedding party, the dance was over, and everyone was sitting around looking exhausted. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z But O-lan said simply, “I will see you wed and then I must die.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Do normal kids discuss their father’s wedding plans with their mother? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Voices on the phone, occasionally bearing news of births and weddings, send chills down their spines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She owned more—furniture, wedding jewelry, cloth, photographs—but she had left such troublesome valuables behind in the family’s care. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He even wears a white shirt with a suit vest over it like he’s catching the tail end of a wedding. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mother sat in a chair and pumped the pedal up and down with her feet while her hands steered the stitches on wed ding and maternity dresses, children’s clothes, pajamas, and skirts. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “Peeta is coming. Sorry you have to cancel your wedding. I know how devastating that must be for you.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside were the two wedding crowns made from rope and, coiled like snakes, the two long braids of hair, each tied with a crumbling black ribbon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was a secret, Holmes explained: Emeline and her betrothed had revealed their wedding plans only to him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Did they have a wedding? Did they waltz? Did she throw a bouquet?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z From what Grace says, Ms. Washington really wanted to be in Bye Bye Birdie, but she has an out-of-town wedding the opening weekend and would’ve missed half the performances. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The castle had been abandoned when King Jerrold was a boy, although it was reopened on special occasions, for private balls, weddings, and the like. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z One of the women was embroidering a wedding sari, coiling gold thread along its borders and fastening it with the tiniest stitches imaginable. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They dressed him in the finest clothes, the kind a highborn goddess would wear to her wedding. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He wondered what Martin’s wedding would be like; Martin’s fiancée was a fashion designer, of all things. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They buy things they are not certain how to prepare, leeks and fresh fava beans and fiddleheads, looking up recipes in the cookbooks they’ve received for their wedding. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “In the ten days since our marriage night was disrupted, my wedded joys are all turned to sorrow. Now Hamlet finds quarrel with my virtue, but there is no cause.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I am a woman wed, and here’s my suckling babe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Wearing my black embroidered wedding coat, I knelt at my parents-in-law’s feet, as I would have done as a bride. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t fuss at all, and didn’t seem to notice she wasn’t wearing the gold wedding band, which was still on the piano. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I slowly come to a stop, wondering if I’m naked and why Cinna has arranged to burn away my wedding dress. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z On the day of the wedding I was in great demand to take things over to the clubhouse in my wagon. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She smoothed the silver hairs of her beautiful wedding parka, then carefully took it off and rolled it up. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He pauses, then says, “After the wedding, we can go get your things. You can live with us.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I ticked my tongue against my teeth and gave Coach the bar, the metal clinking against his wedding ring. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z There, peering in at a shop full of sleek umbrellas, I realized one should be her wedding present and we quickly had it. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Until. My father took me everywhere until I contracted terrible seasickness, until I vomited at a royal wedding, until I tried to hump the ambassador’s leg.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As soon as they left for the capital, Dedd and Mama and Patria started in making bets about when the wedding would be. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was invited to the wedding and was the only one there who wasn’t a Hasid. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Holmes—Harry—wanted the wedding done quickly and quietly, just him, Minnie, and a preacher. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I have seen her only that one time at the wedding ceremony and thought she was very pretty, even though her eyes were wet with tears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think much of books for a wedding present. Nobody ever gave me any book when I was married. I should never have read them if they had.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I never thought I’d be one of those people who cry at weddings and stuff. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Yesterday was Father’s birthday, Father and Mother’s nineteenth wedding anniversary, a day without the cleaning lady...and the sun was shining as it’s never shone before in 1944. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z This was not usual, but it pleased my parents, for it meant they would not have the expense of feeding wedding guests. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I slip Mom’s wedding ring onto my finger, and it fits. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Bad news for us, because Mr. K. has decided to give us wedding words for vocabulary this week. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z They were married on July 11, 1970, about a year after his graduation, in a morning wedding Mass followed by a reception at a catering hall in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Marriage was the thing, or rather, a wedding was, with its formal neatness of virtue rewarded, the thrill of its pageantry and banqueting, and dizzy promise of lifelong union. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Every time we have a wedding, my lady.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pressing it into place with her hands, she wished she had taken Daniel’s wedding brush and comb with her. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was insulted that I left the wedding early. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he remembered that Deborah had been saving money since their wedding day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “That is probably what Hero’s father was thinking after the wedding date was set,” she said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He had worried that my mom was too educated for my dad when they wed, and of course, she had attended school for just a few years. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I, Caroline Azile, take this man to be my lawful wedded husband.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Ma kept her head down as she added a few last stitches to her dress for the wedding. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z So they danced up in the Bottom on the second Saturday in June, danced at the wedding where everybody realized for the first time that except for their magnificent teeth, the deweys would never grow. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Edna and her father had a warm, and almost violent dispute upon the subject of her refusal to attend her sister’s wedding. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “Although many thought you unworthy, I confess that I wished for you to wed Hamlet and become my daughter,” she said, her voice barely audible. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z His wife’s family had given them the boy’s mother as a wedding gift. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baumbach made wedding dresses, which are mostly white, so she bought samples of materials with bright colors and patterns because Rosalie loved colors best. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z But the weddings are such a mixture of emotions. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her feet are free of the three-inch heels she’d worn as soon as the religious part of the wedding was over, causing her to tower over almost everyone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "Donna wants me to go to some wedding," he said, "and I told her you would probably watch Matt. Thought you might like some babysitting money." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Because the Japanese knew the jungle and we did not, wed all been ordered to keep close watch as soon as it got dark. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Was the scene of our wedding in the woods a false dream? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Watching all these weddings made me long for my own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod, even though from what I remember, weddings in Yana Urku seemed to go on for days, maybe even weeks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z More than five years to plan your twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “A pair of these jars was given us as a wedding gift,” he said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She likes looking at the walls, at how neatly their corners meet, the linoleum roses on the floor, the ceiling smooth as wedding cake. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I take a tracking shot into the wedding hall, aglow with thousands of candles, red-and-orange bouquets bursting from the center of tables. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She understood what Jean de Satigny had meant on their wedding night when he explained that he did not feel inclined to married life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was still wearing her wedding dress; Okeoma’s uniform shirt was neatly folded on a chair. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It looked as if there had been a wedding. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I’m drawing a pigeon wedding in my sketchbook. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “The wedding’s tomorrow and I won’t have a second to myself. I’m maid of honor. Will you be able to come?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached into his pocket and pulled out Mama’s wedding ring. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The front room, or parlor, is not wasted either, waiting for a wedding reception to be worthy of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When I congratulated him after the wedding and shook his hand, his fingers were limp and moist. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Soraya and I never went out alone together while preparations for the wedding proceeded—since we weren’t married yet, hadn’t even had a Shirini-khori, it was considered improper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My mom already has visions of a big Indian wedding dancing in her head; I could see it in her eyes when she said goodbye. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z "All that about being a woman wed, and new with child . . ." "Oh, that part was true enough." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She had never been so afraid ... . . . until the day of her wedding came at last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But then shortly after his wedding one morning he was found lying dead across his bed—they said with twenty-five thousand dollars in his pockets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than twenty-four hours ago, he had been standing in the sunlight at the entrance to the marquee, waiting to show in wedding guests. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I thought it was me and Dowdel on our wedding day.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Claudius not only wears my father's crown, but he weds my father's wife!” he said in a tone of disbelief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At noon dinner that day Mary Alice and I distracted Grandma with all the excitement wed left behind in Chicago. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I oohed and aahed at wedding dresses and helped plan the bachelorette activities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In lieu of a wedding dress, Desdemona wore a borrowed silk shawl over her head. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Woody was the best man at his wedding. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The men, wearing their white tuxedos, and the women, wearing silky silver, spaghetti-strapped dresses, complained about having to sit on the slushy curb in their wedding outfits. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The last time she had seen him had been at Kaihan’s wedding last year, and Prince Con Isae Tan—like all young men of rank—had worn his long black hair in a topknot. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In the Receiving Hall, the queen's court is called together for a presentation of Sophia's possible wedding looks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I don’t want to remember the woman pulling off her wedding ring and pushing her baby forward, toward the armed guard. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “We’d better shut them away again before the men arrive tomorrow...to put up the tent for the wedding,” she explained, pausing to lean against the henhouse. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There he was, in . . . my old wedding dress, and you know, I can still wear it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The bride was garbed in white and grey, the colors the true Arya would have worn had she lived long enough to wed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dresses—prom, homecoming, cocktail, formal, even wedding—were displayed on mannequins. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Marriage or carnage. A wedding or a war. Are those my choices?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "You did a good job altering the wedding dress, Baba," Turtle said, which made the dressmaker cry even harder. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She had wanted to wear her sister’s elaborate wedding dress, but their pennilessness called for something less formal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "We were invited to court to see the princess's wedding dress," Mirabelle says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The divorce took place in 1992, just a couple years shy of their twentieth wedding anniversary. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In his spare time, Louie crashed society weddings, worked as a movie extra, and harassed his housemates with practical jokes, replacing their deviled ham with cat food and milk with milk of magnesia. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z "I am delighted that you came home safely, Mister Thorn. I trust that I shall see you at our wedding?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Anatole has even kept the globe I gave him for a wedding present, painted by my own hand on a calabash while the nuns prayed their novenas. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a white dress—a wedding dress? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In fact, the only reason an Iranian wedding would be “black tie optional” is to make our American friends feel more at home. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Madame Crommelynck raised her glasses to peer closer at the wedding photo. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “How often we shall be going to see them, and they coming to see us!—We shall be always meeting! We must begin; we must go and pay wedding visit very soon.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z But she was completely caught up in the sight of Mary Alice sweeping around the stage in Grandma’s own wedding gown. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness, Violet looked like a ghost, her white wedding gown moving slowly across the stage. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “With all the pressure lately, with the wedding, he says that it’s only natural that I should feel amputated.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Her first fancy wedding had been a big success, and now she was getting other jobs. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The accusations he had heard from Muriel at the wedding seemed to have nested in his brain like diseased things, infecting his memories of the wizard he had idolized. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As I described the velvet wedding dress in full detail, and the satchels of dates and almonds the groom’s family passed out for each guest, it almost felt like I was gossiping with a friend. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We eat it at the actual dining table on our parents’ wedding china, and my mom brings out the manger scene centerpiece that rotates like a fan when you light a candle beneath it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z They worked with other leaders nationally, but their home was in Chicago’s black community, which, by their fifth wedding anniversary, in 1900, was over 30,000 strong. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Except when I pulled out all the pieces of wedding dress, Papa’s face shifted, and it wasn’t Papa anymore, but Manolo! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Isn’t it the thing I dreaded most about the wedding, about the future—the loss of my children to the Games? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother hugs the wedding photo tightly against her chest and then places it, along with the book of plants, on our government-issued chest of drawers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Yes. I forgot all about that wedding, boss.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I did not even have a proper wedding. No white dress or orange blossoms or trailing bridesmaids. I don’t want any silly dance given in my honour.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But two weeks before the wedding, Baliwe, who was a spirited girl, ran away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thankful Peabody’s wedding is to be in December, and I can’t bear it if he isn’t here for that.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The wedding brought back all the memories of my own short marriage—all my excitement and pleasure and my hopes coming to nothing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z A speech suitable for the stag night may not go down so well at the wedding, and decorum is a mobile thing—any good speaker reads his or her audience as he goes along. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was the aunt who persuaded or cajoled Mr Coldfield into the big wedding. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z He meant to stop at the wedding on his way to New York and endeavor by every means which money and love could devise to atone somewhat for Edna’s incomprehensible action. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She had no word to say of her own wedding, though her keen father saw her blush. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I picture the Islamic Center—the two-story community building holds the main hall, where lectures, weddings, and all the parties take place. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z After the wedding and the concert, they’d have less than a million left. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z As I later said at my daughter Zindzi’s wedding, it seems to be the destiny of freedom fighters to have unstable personal lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "He has not wed. You know that, Father. Nor will he ever." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “We cannot wed, my love. You know why.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was like a wedding cake, made in three blindingly white tiers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Kenyon had built the chest himself: a mahogany hope chest, lined with cedar, which he intended to give Beverly as a wedding present. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Mirren will never have a wedding with yellow roses or a groom who loves her enough to wear a stupid yellow cummerbund. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Pick a wedding date that falls on your week. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But Vincent wants to stay home for the family’s first wedding: Anna is getting married in August. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On their wedding night a scorpion that had got into her slipper bit Rebeca on the foot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z An old hunchbacked white man performed the wedding. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, you know, clearing Luce’s stuff out. God, she was a pack rat. You can barely open her drawers. You know, I found your grandmother’s wedding veil. I’ve been looking for that thing for ages.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I didn't notice if she wore a wedding ring. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He is thinking how strange it was that a wedding present to me should have been the cause of destroying a wedding present to Rebecca. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Bible say what so e’er the Lord hath brought together, let no man put asunder— Matthew Twenty-one: Two. We was bony fide and legal wed, suh,” she pleaded. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don't care about Andras. And I never wish to wed. You didn't,” she pointed out. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “So what happened now? Honestly, I couldn’t believe it when he said you guys were not in touch. Ahn-ahn! All of us were just waiting for the wedding invitation card o!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They hadn’t been invited to the wedding—and wouldn’t have come if they had been—but the way they patted his back and rubbed his shoulders, they seemed like a chortling chaw of benevolent uncles. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He violated the bonds of affection, sometimes visiting slaves on their wedding night to show the husband the proper way to discharge his marital duty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The warmth of the thirty or so people inside, the familiar aroma of spices and good cooking, and the hushed play of children was extraordinarily comforting, the way wakes were, or weddings or baptisms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z "Hie night of our wedding feast, the first time we shared a bed, he called me by your sister's name. He was on top of me, in me, stinking of wine, and he whispered Lyanna." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She arranged the details of her past the way she tidied up her house, and she had never told Ernest, her instinctively jealous second husband, about her Osage wedding with Roan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Seeing her in my wedding sari, her eyes darkened with kohl, her cheeks and lips rouged, and designs painted on her forehead, was like seeing myself again as I had been almost three years before. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose we’ll have to go to their wedding in a few years, again. ” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z His only daughter, Violet, drowned on the eve of her wedding, and two years later his troubled wife deserted their home. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had typed up an explanation of Bengali wedding rituals on the computer and mailed it to all the Americans on the guest list. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Priests, they say, should stick to doing Mass, weddings, and baptisms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “You see this wedding ring? Well, I bought this ring myself. This boy ain’t got no daddy.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Sugar was now the perfect decoration for a royal wedding, to be used was tea—and this is the first time the drink was mentioned by a European. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I was thinking that for the wedding, we would— Stop making fun! Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Safer’s mom is at an all-day wedding and Saturday is his dad’s busiest day at driving school, so Safer makes scrambled eggs for lunch and keeps his promise to teach me how. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Bran did want to be married to a tree ... but who else would wed a broken boy like him? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When the news reached Shindand, the parakeet seller’s family called off the wedding. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was better they wait for the war to end, rather than have their wedding in this house with its sullen rooms and moldy kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On the fifth finger of his calloused hand there was a woman’s wedding ring. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This will be the best part of the wedding. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Sula was no less excited about the wedding. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I hear that if I don’t go to his wedding, I will lose my only son. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “No. No, I don’t think it was. As a matter of fact I believe it was a wedding present. Rebecca knew a lot about china.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Mandy had never told me that fairies liked to go to weddings and births. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Did he ever love a maid or have a wedding! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Yes. And I saw your niece Sana. She danced with my friends at the wedding.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And she had arranged to rent a red palanquin to carry me from her neighbor’s house to the wedding ceremony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I want you to live your life, to kiss a girl and wed a woman and father a son. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The closest thing had been her wedding, and that had been only fifty or so friends and family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Daddy almost lost his wedding ring to that pawnshop once. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She looked at her son, watched him as he listened to the lords debate, frowning, troubled, yet wedded to his war. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Except without the job satisfaction. The sooner this wedding’s over, the happier I’ll be.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t even speak of such a thing! You know if a wedding does not take place at the appointed time, some evil is sure to come to the bride.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She could sit atop a royal wedding pastry. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “The wedding dance your friends are doing. You do not play such games in Lublin? Perhaps you are smarter than we.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Small wonder there; Lysa was still young, and die kingdom of Mountain and Vale made a handsome wedding gift. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The villagers used to climb up to the mountain hut regularly, requesting that Amah embroider peonies or five-colored clouds onto silks for weddings and birthdays. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Now she is clearing away my crumbs with the sterling silver scraper I gave to Elizabeth and Raleigh for their wedding. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He announced that the wedding would start promptly at four thirty. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Barack had originally planned to spend the months leading up to our wedding finishing his book and working at his new law firm, but he’d ended up putting most of it on an abrupt hold. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She and Eric were not going to have a big formal wedding. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t it seem very long to wait?” asked Amy, who was in a hurry for the wedding. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Nymeria had landed ten thousand ships upon Dome’s sandy shores, but when she wed her Domish prince she had burned them all and turned her back upon the sea forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He knows he's inviting an argument, and that he shouldn't, not on Mutti's wedding day. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z And Wang Lung would not willingly let him wed in the house, because of the spawn he would breed and one like him was enough. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah, if I fought with my brother, shed tie our shoes together and make us go around like that for a day. And if we so much as shoved each other, wed get another day.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the woman had wed a seaman of incorrigible appetites and hated the reminder—Cora didn’t know the source of her animus, or care. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The timing of the wedding couldn’t have been worse. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One day soon after Brian was born, we were short on cash, so Dad pawned Mom’s big diamond wedding ring, which her mother had paid for, and that upset Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She thought she must be dreaming when she saw that her husband had changed out of his wedding suit into black silk pajamas and a velvet Pompeian bathrobe. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t have any pictures around his desk, and he didn’t wear a wedding ring. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z She had spoken them many times before their wedding, often she’d urged him not to go, but he had not been able to bring himself to stay away from the fighting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The wedding itself did not end until 5:31, and Humperdinck had to use all of his persuasive abilities to get even that much accomplished. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But the difference was that her mother had been madly in love with her husband from the first moment she saw him on their wedding day. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z When she pulled up one of the little chairs for Dicey to sit on, Dicey saw with surprise that she wore a silver wedding ring on her right hand. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, is she not lovely, though so sad! Her dress is well chosen, too, for in a week she weds Count Antonio, whom she passionately hates.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Dolores says, walking into the living room dressed in one of the dark pantsuits she wears to weddings. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z "Marriage contracts can be broken. What advantage is there in wedding the king to the daughter of a dead traitor?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sanjeev had found the house on his own before leaving for the wedding, for a good price, in a neighborhood with a fine school system. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I think about the time we took Natalie to my cousin Cricket’s wedding. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Cassius Clay had extended the invitation as a sixth wedding anniversary present to Malcolm X and Sister Betty, and they had accepted most gratefully. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He followed her into the great hall itself, and his mind went back how quickly over the years past when he had stood there waiting to wed a slave of the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Their sister’s wedding day arrived; and Jane and Elizabeth felt for her probably more than she felt for herself. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “On the eve of your wedding day, you denounce him, but you wanted to marry him, the Brazilian soccer player; you always said when you were young that you wanted to marry him.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z For the family wedding picture, his mother told him to stand in the back so nobody could see what he had on. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee’s trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In my parents' case, they dated for a week, then spent the following week planning their wedding. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I noticed she didn’t wear a wedding ring. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z He looked like a low-grade bookmaker dressed up for his daughter's wedding, and he was clearly very pleased with himself this evening. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He spoke at each birth, funeral, and wedding, as well as at unexpected special occasions like this. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He dove behind a rack of wedding dresses. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He did not seem to be enjoying it near as much as he had the pork pies at the wedding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I flew first to Calcutta, to attend my wedding, and a week later I flew to Boston, to begin my new job. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Nhamo tore a square of the red cloth she was to use for the wedding ceremony and tied the gold pieces inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would’e build a house wit barrow stones? Would yeh dig something out o’ a barrow an’ give it to your daughter as a wedding present?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even if the wedding were this evening, I wouldn’t get on that plane. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Dad mentioned the dozen figure for the first time on their wedding day. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The British still use those endings, but Americans are now more likely to use the shorter quit, bet, wet, wed, and fit. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you suppose,” I asked, as I poled the skiff, the focus of my romantic musings shifting from my own wedding day to Mr. Rice’s, “do you suppose her parents oppose the marriage?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z British people love those things: a plate for the Queen’s birthday, a plate with the prince’s wedding portrait on it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “His granddaughter. I heard that too, but his lordship forgot t’ invite me to the wedding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mother already secretly offered him her wedding ring plus a thousand dollars, which supposedly we’d dig up after we got back to Georgia without Father or any visible means of self-support. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to deal with it, even in the middle of her sister’s wedding, in the middle of a vacation, when it was the last thing she wanted to do. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Matching wedding rings glint on their tan hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z "I had not thought you so niggardly. The king I'd thought to wed would have laid a wolfskin across my bed before the sun went down." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I had my share of fishwives and crofter's daughters, before and after I was wed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Besides, Millie was engaged and there was a wedding to plan, a subject Caroline found far more interesting than her own education. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You look smart. I told Daddy most people would probably wear dress robes, but he believes you ought to wear sun colors to a wedding, for luck, you know.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I think about that story about his parents—how he invited them to the wedding but they refused to come because they were so angry with him for leaving Rachel. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I was invited to the wedding, of course,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “If I cannot slay your foes, how shall I amuse myself whilst you are being wed?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My heart began to beat like a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But Rebeca was so impatient with the approach of the wedding that she wanted to get the dress ready earlier than Amaranta had foreseen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was their parents’ wedding anniversary, and for once Habib didn’t have to drag Zafoona out of bed so that they could go out for dinner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The guests had all left slowly, saying little, their faces shadowed with guilt, as if embarrassed that they had allowed the air raid to ruin the wedding. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps London would be overwhelmed by poisonous gas, or overrun by German parachutists aided on the ground by fifth columnists before Lola’s wedding could take place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They say hardly a wedding or birth takes place without at least one in attendance. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She stopped using her married name and removed the fine gold wedding ring that he had placed on her finger twenty years before, on that memorable night when Barrabas was assassinated with a butcher’s knife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not been seen outside her chambers since her wedding night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “In fact, I’m pretty sure you and your family were invited to the wedding.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In his hands was a piece of paper; the father recognized it as the paper he himself had given him as a wedding gift. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Their mom’s second fancy wedding had been a bigger hit than her first. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z No sooner had they been seated than Mors asked for leave to wed Lady Hornwood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And my fiftieth wedding anniversary—that was a beautiful occasion. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “My cousin was here for a wedding,” I said, “and I heard there was some trouble.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She accepted, with the proviso that the wedding take place in the spring, after she received her degree. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I was hoping to get sent to a corner, where I could fantasize about a grand Cinderella wedding with Jonathan Rodriquez as my groom. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The wedding party left Johannesburg very early on the morning of June 12, and we arrived in Bizana late that afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon enough, my sisters’ wedding plans turned to arguing over how to throw rose petals. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “It would take them a long time. Longer for my dad. I don’t think they’d have come to our wedding.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “But then you caught her in the mirror, saying how her mom won’t be able to see her on her wedding day. And it drew the viewer in.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Really, Mrs. Weasley, just a normal dinner would be fine....It’s the day before the wedding....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He welcomed our friends and family and then held up our wedding bands for all to see. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Pa and Miss Hendrix are too old to have a fairy-tale wedding with flower girls and harps playing.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He relayed all of this to me one night at home about six weeks after our wedding, before delicately dropping a final bit of information: His mother had found him the perfect cabin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Certainly he did not: there was not even any date set for the wedding. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom claimed ownership of my grandmother’s wedding gown while she was in hospice. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She cried for days before the wed- din’.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Red wanted to be sure that she got the wedding gift she wanted most—a diamond watch—so he mailed her what little money he had so she could pick it out herself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Was there any similarity between this wedding party and my troupe? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There are commemorative royal wedding souvenirs everywhere; Prince Philip and his bride’s face plastered on everything from chocolate bars to underwear. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Except for a formal bow of greeting on Sabbath morning and on Lecture Dayf Kit did not see William again till the day of Thankful Peabody’s wedding. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The following year was spent preparing for the wedding. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After a lovely visit to Maer a few weeks before the wedding, he told Emma that she would have to humanize him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Turned them west instead of east, abandoning his hopes of wedding Queen Daenerys? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wedding was planned for February 24th, three days before my seventeenth birthday. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All the giants and ogres fell beneath Thor’s hammer: the guests at the wedding that was never to be. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Three o’clock on the following afternoon found Harry, Ron, Fred, and George standing outside the great white marquee in the orchard, awaiting the arrival of the wedding guests. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She told me about her summer wedding and honeymoon trip she took with her wife to Europe, and I told her about spending the summer with my grandmamma. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Last week, Tono had found a little rod behind Mama’s wedding picture—a telltale sign of bugging. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though it meant leaving my home for the home of my bridegroom’s family, I was becoming very nearly happy about my wedding. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z What did she know, or need to know, of fancy wedding manners, or moving a herd of lambs through the desert? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One is honey-blond with kind of a granola vibe, even in a wedding dress. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z We had to wait for Plutarch to finish getting his wedding footage, which, despite the lack of what he calls razzle-dazzle, he’s pleased with. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Arya of House Stark comes here to be wed. A woman grown and flowered, truebom and noble, she comes to beg the blessings of the gods. Who comes to claim her?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was where his father and brothers had disappeared to during the wedding supper. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “You could have your wedding at the Grand Regency. They have a nice ballroom, and the gardens outside are pretty. That’s where Freebie goes to the bathroom, but I always pick it up.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I could offer him my fair young body, she thought, pushing a strand of hair from her eyes, but Stannis was wed and so was she, and he and the ironbom were old foes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She had returned the engagement ring to Denton Deere; she had not seen him since Crow's wedding. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “You put yourself in such danger in order to see a wedding?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The clang from her wedding ring makes a few of them jump. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z When she woke up on her wedding day, Caroline looked drowsy and frazzled, as if she had aged several years since the last time we saw her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The courtyard where the wedding was to take place had to be carefully swept and a ceremonial fire readied. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z One day, when my mother went to the market to buy a gift for my cousin’s wedding, a big, burly Talib accosted her and blocked her way. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And she must have told Mr Coldfield that there was nothing wrong and evidently she believed that herself since she continued to sew on the garments for Judith’s wedding. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z There were splashy weddings with salmon and harpists, then bright blond grandchildren and funny blond dogs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “It will buy a handsome wedding present for Sister Janet!” she exclaimed, smoothing out the bills as she counted them one by one. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z When the guests at Tamar’s wedding ate the cream puffs, they could taste the truest thing in all the world at that moment—the baker’s pain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The television networks were broadcasting highlights from the wedding. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Where are you? You haven’t spent any money since the wedding.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z On Thursday, when Hannah brought Eva her fried tomatoes and soft scrambled eggs with the white left out for good luck, she mentioned her dream of the wedding in the red dress. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z To get money for the dowry, Maa sold three brass vases and a brass wedding lamp that had been a part of her own dowry. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The bald man with the long nose hurried by the children, then stopped himself, looked at Violet in her wedding dress, and smirked. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “But why this particular wedding? Why this night?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Oh my God, this is like all those romantic comedies where the girl hires a male escort to pretend to be her wedding date and then falls in love with him for real.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “My dear, don’t be absurd. I’m not one to grudge you a present, even though we weren’t asked to your wedding!” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I’m running around the house trying to find my wedding dress when I hear Mama call out to look in Papa’s coffin! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “My limbs all went dead on my wedding day. I vomited all over my wedding dress on the way to the church.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His older sister’s wedding isn’t until Friday, so at least I’m not jeopardizing his attendance there. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z A Hindu wedding with Canada prominently on the edges. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Before his cousin Ashleigh’s wedding, for example, he dropped her off at a small spa near his childhood home, to get her eyebrows shaped. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Look at her face! Now you can text Kasim your wedding plans, ’cause you were seriously thinking about it, weren’t you?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Somewhere below all that, I knew, were two long braids of hair, tied with crumbling black ribbons, and a wedding crown made of ship’s rope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Two weeks later, Roosevelt traveled to Spain to attend Kermit’s wedding to Belle. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “I had hoped to spend this upon your wedding gown and feast. Take the gold now and begin a new life.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The rigid edges of her wedding ring sliced into her tumid finger. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Events in the years before my birth: after dancing with Zoe at my parents’ wedding, Father Mike pursued her doggedly for the next two and a half years. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Buy stolen property from a kid, and next thing you knew you’d have an enraged adult accusing you of having given little Johnnie or Matilda a tenner for their wedding ring. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z After a few minutes clanking around in the engine com-partment, the driver announced that wed all have to get off. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z From the very first letter she received from her daughter after her wedding, Clara could tell that her separation from Blanca would not last long. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you sure you want to go to this wedding?” he asks on Thursday night. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ginny’s great-aunt. At the wedding. The one who said you had skinny ankles.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I wanted to sew yellow, blue, and red ribbons into her wedding lingerie for good luck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He stopped on a picture of his parents’ wedding day. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When Coin says “wedding,” she means two people signing a piece of paper and being assigned a new compartment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Ever since Melvin Edwards backed out of your wedding all those years back, you’ve been afraid of love, refusing to take a chance. Like May said, it’s your time to live. Don’t mess it up.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A bride who received money pinned to her wedding dress in the Polish tradition was reported to have regifted it to the strikers' relief fund. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then I guess she remembered her wedding band was still on top of the piano. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Ron started to laugh, but at the sight of the enormous pile of wedding presents waiting for them in Mrs. Weasley’s room, stopped quite abruptly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It’s not the type of wedding either of them really wants. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This time, her mom was away, playing her cello at another wedding. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I spoke mildly, for I did not want to scold my husband on the morning after our wedding, though I thought his behavior warranted it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Mr. Terupt,” I said, before we got into a serious discussion, “did you know that Miss Kelsey doesn’t wear a wedding ring?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z She should have been angry, having seen the wedding portrait in his drawer, but his lie made it easier for her to go forward with her own. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s an old wedding picture and Coach is the best man; he’s rocking a huge Afro, wearing a powder-blue tuxedo, and looking more like my classmates than an adult, which makes me smile. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The wedding took place on June 14,1958.1 applied for a relaxation of my banning orders and was given six days’ leave of absence from Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just recently, by air mail, I received an invitation to a wedding that will take place in England on April 18th. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He knew Benji had made some charges to party places, which could have been for anything—for the wedding, for their lunch period, for an actual party. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Many think it strange that Claudius has wed his brother’s widow with such haste. Tell me what is said m secret among you ladies,” he demanded. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Alex hated taking wedding rings off bodies, but they needed food for one more week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z One day there would be another grand wedding for Maria and Tom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been two weeks since we met at the wedding, and weirdly, it feels like a million years ago, but also yesterday. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z After their wedding, Lord Ramsay had locked her away in a tower and starved her to death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “What? If he makes things too obvious, he’s going to be the next one to get a knife in the back. And he wouldn’t be the first member of the Gentry to wed a sister.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They rushed into the salon and herded the wedding guests out. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When a horse and a jockey flew over the track together, there were moments in which the man’s mind wedded itself to the animal’s body to form something greater than the sum of both parts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z How many weddings have we had in the past month? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Along with everyone else, he had received his own bound and illustrated tale of love, adversities overcome, reunion and a wedding. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Yes, Justice Strauss. Be creative. There’s no reason to stick to the legal ceremony. It’s not as if it’s a real wedding.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z A phul-khana, a wedding veil of fine silk and embroidered in gold thread, disappeared overnight. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s a cousin from Australia, staying for a couple of weeks; he’s Jason’s oldest friend, best man at their wedding. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be her unhappy face in the wedding photo. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “But I know what a wedding night is.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, everyone was singing, “Oh meet me, in the tulips, when the tulips do blooom—” This is what they always sing at weddings when the married couple leaves. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “I thought you did not want the crown! Only yesterday, before we wed, you said you would forswear Denmark’s throne.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Armand crossed his arms; he had hairy forearms and wore a gold wedding band. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Luther Rice never allowed it, but in two cases where the couples already had mailed invitations, he did permit weddings in his office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jon let that hang for a moment, then said, “Your niece is wed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A stark warning issued by survival school instructors flashed through his mind—never wear wedding rings into combat. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Caroline had bought her a new hat for the wedding, and she had worn it on the trip home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, now I have two weddings to deal with. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z "Make your move, Turtle, you don't want to be late for the wedding." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure you all need your rest...but there are wedding presents stacked in my room that need sorting out and I was under the impression that you had agreed to help.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z However, I recollected afterwards that if he had been prevented going, the wedding need not be put off, for Mr. Darcy might have done as well.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “I didn’t have a father at my wedding,” Terryl says, sympathizing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She makes a point of mentioning the engagements and weddings of the Bengali children he’s grown up with in Massachusetts, and his cousins in India. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But it was also the kind of garment a groom would wear at his wedding as well as his funeral. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z After the banquet, our small wedding party pushed us and half carried us up to the third floor to our small bedroom. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “My cousin always said he didn’t know how to dance, and then he suddenly learned before a family wedding,” Nico says. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t notice until now that he is still wearing his wedding ring. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She was describing a small tapestry she had embroidered as a wedding gift for her friend Thomas, the woodcarver, who had recently been married. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z When she and Lefty became members of his congregation, the old priest had asked, as a formality, if they had received an Orthodox wedding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We said to each other that we were married the first day she had come to the hospital and we counted months from our wedding day. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “There is no proof of our wedding. Words were spoken. That is all. And words vanish on the wind,” I said bitterly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Caroline seemed distant the night before her wedding. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Shanta first, a big wedding which lasted for many days, plenty of gifts and feasts, diamond earrings, a gold necklace, as befitted the daughter of the village headman. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy was so happy at being divorced so quickly that she sent him a silver-plated pickle dish as a belated wedding present. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will have to grow your hair for the wedding,” they tell Sonia. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Oh yeah, what we gave Big Joe and the new Mrs. Big Joe for a wedding gift was a pair of boss imitation Tiffany lamps that cost sixty-three dollars. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood beside the window in their wedding clothes and kissed, and she smelled his warm neck and throat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I also realize that while I was playing, not even once did I think about weddings. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In 1973, in a smuggled newspaper, we read about the wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, and the story detailed the bridal luncheon of rare and delicate dishes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “She must have your wedding sari. You need nothing but your widow’s sari.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “First off, they agreed to be civil about arranging these weddings—no more fighting,” I tell them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “It’s not a Vegas wedding,” said a bachelorette. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “My father is trading at a giant’s farm, where a wedding will take place soon. He wrote that giants’ weddings are interesting. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Though in her heart she did not want to attend, in spite of everything, she was planning to act like this was a real wedding. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She takes down a cabbage-rose teapot and cups—a wedding gift from Mrs. Murphy that’s been in a box for decades—along with some recently recovered spoons from Mrs. Nielsen’s silver service. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “The last time I saw your mother, she gave me a shower for my wedding,” Frances said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Three weeks before their wedding, Susan took Fred to an animal shelter on East 110th Street, where she told a whole bunch of lies, including “My fiancé is allergic to him.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We went with Ira to the river and, when she was freshly bathed, put on her the red sari I had worn at my own wedding. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Sourmelina had cut the ribbon between their wedding crowns and placed her husband’s inside the coffin, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And yet, away from public view, one of the largest concentrations of professional female mathematicians in the United States stayed on the job, their identities wedded to their professions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Noah said, "I would like to live over the day I was best man at a wedding in Century Village that involved four grandparents—two of mine and one each of two other Souls." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z At the wedding reception, held at the Los Coyotes Country Club, Danny showed up belligerent, but a handful of men were at the door, waiting for him, and turned him away. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Because it’s not like a wedding. It’s not like, ‘Ohh, I like summer colors. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I will be wed in a church. With a Bishop.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Within days of the wedding, the guests who had traveled to Elsinore departed and quiet returned, but little peace. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Like a wedding he went to, his friend’s brother’s wedding. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z For the festivities, the cook from the inn makes the wedding meal. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z As part of their unconventional wedding ceremony, Blackwell renounced his legal privileges as husband, and Stone announced that she would keep her own name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She felt veiled in cobwebs, a woman wedded to her family. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I had completely forgotten that after the wedding ceremony Arabella and the medical prince link arms and, speaking in unison, step forward to address to the audience a final couplet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And so, by the time she reached the second-floor landing, she had already drawn to the whole building’s attention the menu of her third daughter’s wedding night. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Directly after the wedding, as the bride walked in a meadow with her bridesmaids, a viper stung her and she died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Such a shame,” he said, and I got the feeling that he really meant it, that wed be breaking his heart if we went. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A place rented out for political meetings, weddings, or demonstrations by the occasional traveling clairvoyant? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I must have served at about thirty baptisms and about the same number of weddings and funerals. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The news of Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s wedding shocked the Romans. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z "Only that Noah was best man at Grandma and Izzy's wedding." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He was humming the wedding song and drumming his finger on the edge of the tailgate. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I was learning. I’m good enough for a country wedding and that’s about it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That she was wed to his father's shipwright and pregnant to boot only made her more intriguing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z For the wedding, Princesse and I were bridesmaids and wore gorgeous rose-colored gowns. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Her fingers were swollen and her wedding band looked uncomfortably tight. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The plant book, the hunting jacket, my parents’ wedding photo, and the personal contents of my drawer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Knowing Ella, I knew that she had already extracted Laura’s entire life story—and all but had the wedding bells around my neck. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've been at the Dress Bazaar, trying to settle on the proper fabric for Princess Sophia's wedding gown. I have to match your glorious feat from that day in the Receiving Hall somehow." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “After the wedding Hizdahr will be -king. Let him reopen the fighting pits if he wishes. I want no part of it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He unzips the bag, revealing one of the wedding dresses I wore for the photo shoot. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We know that Halley’s wife was Mary Tooke, and that the wedding took place in St James’ Church, in Duke Place, London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Her avoidance of me after the wedding was another trick, the meaning of which is too deep for me to fathom. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Raymond Andrews was a short fellow with small hands, nails perfectly trimmed, wedding band on the ring finger. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The ladies had cleaned the house, aired everything out, notified everybody, and stitched together what looked like a white wedding dress for Aunt Jimmy, a maiden lady, to wear when she met Jesus. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z My sisters climb out, including that bunch that call themselves my sisters, all dressed up like a wedding party. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We threw rice at weddings, we laid wreaths at funerals. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There was so much to do if all were to be ready for the double wedding that was set for early May. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z To say it was a shotgun wedding would not be inaccurate. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Travel permits were usually issued for work-related reasons or for a family event that could be confirmed by bureaucrats, such as a wedding or a funeral. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Every injury, every tear, every missed birthday, wedding—it all washed away as we stood there and reveled in the sound of the crowds cheering us on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She set her gold wedding ring firmly, pulled the gloves back on, and faced the front. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Their wedding, a small private ceremony, took place at the Bethel Methodist Church near Danbury, Connecticut. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The next day was Katie’s wedding day and they were going straight to their new home from the church. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But he makes everybody keep mum about what he finds there on account he wants et tae be this greet surprise at the wedding.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All I could do was watch as Polyphemus turned and ripped off Grover’s wedding veil—revealing his curly hair, his scruffy adolescent beard, his tiny horns. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z There is a lady who will wed me, unless I miss my guess. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But he hears no birth or wedding or death announcements, no numbers, no music. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I ask, because we’ve been invited to parties before—birthdays, weddings, funerals, graduations. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He took off his wedding ring and the medal of the Virgin of Help and put them alongside his glasses and watch. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “We thought wed explore a bit. We’ve never been on the floor below this one.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you were still patrolling the border. I didn’t notice you at the wedding.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She wanted daughter to marry somebody else, but Violet Westing killed herself before the wedding. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z There must have been a blizzard the day she and Stannis wed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But Grandpa didn’t let on to the crowd gathered at our house but what he thought they were all there to celebrate the wedding. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was a joyous time as we prepared for Adele’s wedding. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Her mother had given it to her years ago in expectation of her wedding night, saying, “I hope you fill this out someday.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And he said aloud then and slowly, “Well, and we will wed you soon, my son.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He dropped the foot, patted Vernon’s flank, then stepped aside to stare up at the sky—as blue and clear as Ma’s wedding sheets hung out to dry. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z It had been over a year since her wedding. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Since Moushumi has to teach a class three days after the wedding, they have to postpone the honeymoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The wedding was canceled, hundreds of phone calls made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Right. Well, you better get me a big wedding present.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Edna was glad to be rid of her father when he finally took himself off with his wedding garments and his bridal gifts, with his padded shoulders, his Bible reading, his “toddies” and ponderous oaths. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He keeps his wedding ring in a blue velvet box with tight springs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom helped with the wedding and went to Ellie’s church and learned about Christianity. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We made fun of him, and asked whether he was going to a wedding. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He took off his wedding ring and let it sink. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "Has he wed yet? Taken some . . . girl to wife?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And although there were four weddings on hand that week, the jeweler nodded that he could go. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z All the society girls come and order their wedding invitations there. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that it’s nice to have someone to go to weddings and parties with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z One inmate had wanted to cut off his ring finger, he said, because it was too swollen for the inmate to remove his wedding band, but another inmate had talked him out of it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If I have to wed Piers, I’ll go out of my mind. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Tell me,” Dany said, as the procession turned toward the Temple of the Graces, “if my father and my mother had been free to follow their own hearts, whom would they have wed?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “If I ever do get married,” Tariq said, “they’ll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Combine that with the fact that by losing me they’ll be losing their ticket to all kinds of big social events, particularly my wedding, and the whole thing becomes unbearable. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She was embroidering a border of lotus flowers, a proper border for a wedding sari, because the lotus pod’s many seeds are scattered to the wind, suggesting wealth and plenty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Pollard greeted her with a beautiful wedding, undoubtedly financed and planned by Marcela. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It took no time at all for me to turn against my mother when I had scolded Vonetta and Fern for wanting to be flower girls at Pa’s wedding to another woman. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He was not a man you'd expect to speak of maids and wedding nights. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Some loose tongues spread tales of the preparations for Tyrek's wedding feast, and these wretches got it in their heads they should be feasted too. His Grace led a sortie and sent them scurrying." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was a wedding song, the only song she could come up with, something about a madness forced upon them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Exactly, Eliot, exactly like a wedding ring. Only with no fear of losing it in the dishwater.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “At the wedding? Or at Starbucks, when you randomly accosted me?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She was still in bed when he came home late in the afternoon, when he showed her his new haircut, his new used suit, blue with cream pinstripes, and the wedding band he’d bought her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The wedding was planned for summer in New Jersey, an engagement party thrown, a few gifts already received. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z So when she heard the wedding was to be moved up, she wasn’t the least upset. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Not that you’re not a professional already, of course. But in a studio, maybe. Or for weddings and engagements. You’d be very highly sought after.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “No. Just the one of both of us taken on our wedding day. Why?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was because the night after my youngest aunt’s wedding, I began to know a thing before it happened. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a smaller photo of his parents, on their wedding day. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I follow the gold organza that drapes the ceiling and trails the flower-strewn aisle leading to the mandap—the traditional wedding canopy under which the vows will take place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z This veteran decided to take his car into the basement, and he closed the door and started down, but his wedding ring was caught in all the ornaments. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had hung woolen army blankets to divide the Imadas’ cramped room in half and had given them, on their wedding night, two cots adjacent to the stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Well, when my father got through with that sentence where the wedding was sandwiched between the ministers’ meeting and the treasury whatever, I said, ‘You read that wrong.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Pietro Crespi returned on Sunday midnight to sweep up the ashes of the party, after having worn out five horses on the road in an attempt to be in time for his wedding. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They were the ones who looked as if they were going to a wedding. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom said we had ridden on the train once, going up to Chicago for Aunt Cecily’s wedding, way back before Susie was born. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I have asked Sister Agatha to beg the Superior to let our wedding be this afternoon, and am waiting her reply.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She got her red tights from a box on the shelf, slipped into a warm shirt, and put on her wedding parka and pants. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I held the wedding ring until the rabbi nodded, and I handed it over. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The church’s pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was known as a sensational preacher with a passion for social justice and was now officiating at our wedding. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Got anything else other than fish?” wed always say. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will be married, Fayge. Your father will marry us. Maybe not here, in your shul. Maybe not even under a wedding canopy.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m really happy for you. I can’t wait to be the best man at your ridiculous coffee shop wedding.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He shakes my hand like I’ve just asked him to be best man at my wedding. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Then, a week before the wedding date, a jinn had entered Nana’s body. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I heard a laugh and then the first soldier’s voice, slurry and off-key, singing the old wedding song. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was not just shelter, just anonymous wife and children that he wanted, just as he did not want just wedding. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z She had last seen him at her wedding, him and his brother, in their militia uniforms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Her father had made this trunk for her mother almost a century before, a bride-gift when they were wed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z You will go to a wedding soon and did you lose an anchor of arms, yes, an anchor of arms? The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And when President Snow silences the audience and says, “What do you think about us throwing them a wedding right here in the Capitol?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z "Who would dare to serve such an ill-cooked roast at the future queen's wedding? " he cries. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z We think our weddings are better than your weddings. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Anyone going by, or any neighbor, will think it is a wedding feast he hears. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred wedding trunks could not buy Awaiting Marriage even a hunchbacked, lame-footed husband. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Oh! the best nature in the world—a wedding.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z She reached into her pocket and drew out the photos of her family, the picture of her father and mother, the picture of herself and her husband on their wedding day. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Planning a wedding is incredibly stressful, the first real trial of a marriage, they say. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Not pushing their feelings, letting themselves be borne along by the natural flow of their hearts, they reached a point where all that was left to do was set a wedding date. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She remembered the wedding dream and recalled that weddings always meant death. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z "Xaro assures me that in Qarth, man and woman each retain their own property after they are wed. The dragons are mine." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Ammu knew that weddings were not something that could be avoided altogether. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees surround us with their fall leaves in blazes of red and orange and yellow, as if they, too, are celebrating the first English wedding in the New World. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Rich and I have decided to postpone our wedding. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s important,” I started, noticing the deep-set lines on her ring finger where her wedding band used to sit. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “You saw my brother Rhaegar wed. Tell me, did he wed for love or duty?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This house and garden brought back the sweet man she had begun to love after their wedding, before the pregnancies, the miscarriages, the moves, and the money worries. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “That was from eighth grade. We found her mom’s old wedding dress and so she made me go home and get a red sari so I could pretend to be a bride too.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “You know how it is right now. After the wedding, though. And you’re going to come up for that, right?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Soraya told me that her mother had wanted to sing at our wedding, only one song, but the general gave her one of his looks and the matter was buried. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When I saw the city, pink and white, a wedding cake arrayed on hills, a new anxiety took hold of me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "It's no sillier than a wedding dress," Turtle snapped back. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She had met a kind Egyptian-American man, and the two of them had followed traditional Islamic marriage laws and were going to have their wedding celebration in March. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z As she always did before going into Level 4, she took off her engagement ring and her wedding band, and locked them away in her desk. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatrice remembered her promise of a wedding present. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She saw no gain in wedding a man as hated as herself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wedding party simply sat on the ground, late for the reception and, by now, tremendously agitated. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z There was less than a month until the wedding, but Amparo Moscote promised to sew a new dress within a week. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “So how are the wedding plans going?” she asks as she pops the bag of Twizzlers to share. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z They talked about weddings and jobs and weather and other boring grown-up stuff after that. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Maa said, “Tomorrow at the wedding ceremony. Before would not be proper.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z But the thought of Baachan selling her wedding kimono just—it just made her suddenly want to be even more alone. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If I have to be wed, then, when all’s done and said — I’ll wed Piers I would rather be dead than wed Piers. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “We haven’t got months—it’s after one now, and the wedding’s at six tonight. What parts can we hope to have in working order in seventeen hours?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Snow during a wedding means a cold marriage. My lady mother always said so.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "As it happens, I'm a woman wed, and new with child." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Her Highness has had me attempt to make several vivant dresses based on the one you created as her wedding look." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z June set a wedding date, Saturday, October 10. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I needed information about the wedding and none of the people in town seemed likely to talk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I’d be honored if you would be my daughter for this wedding. My daughter, and my maid of honor.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z "And you are to wed one of his daughters, once the fighting is done," she finished. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Aye, so he did, but still... a wedding in that ruin?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “All praise R ’hllor, the Lord of Light,” the wedding guests answered in ragged chorus before a gust of ice-cold wind blew their words away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She did away with her good plates, her napkins, all her jewelry— save for her wedding band—and most of her old clothes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I remember Octavia talking about this during the wedding shoot, and I see a possible chance to allude to the uprising. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Pecksniff quit the firm, bet on the horses, and wet his whistle, then wed his sweetheart in a suit that fit him perfectly. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was natural that she would want the miracle doctor’s daughter at the wedding of this son’s youngest daughter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “My plan is to make sure everything is just perfect for your wedding,” says Haymitch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg’s wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip about the Marches. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She had met a lovely man from our tribe, and she decided to hold the wedding in Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The first dozen or so were from my parents’ wedding. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z And so, five days before the wedding, he stood at the head of his company awaiting the speech of the Prince. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But as Caroline’s wedding approaches—she is to be married April 30, 1873—Vincent is more and more swamped by his sadness. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Roses and electric shocks, the khaki of Deltas and a whiff of asafoetida—wedded indissolubly before the child can speak. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped out into blue light that covered the first sheet, walking very slowly, like you do at weddings, carrying against the white bodice of my gown a bouquet of pink carnations. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the day of her wedding she dreamed about a legendary kingdom, in spite of the fact that her father, Don Fernando, had to mortgage the house in order to buy her trousseau. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Honestly, though, there are not a lot of options around here, and I’m guessing he’s not making a mad break for Vegas for a quickie wedding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The couple stood motionless under the scorching sun, looking at the train as it merged with the black strip of the horizon, linking arms for the first time since the day of their wedding. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The next morning Mrs. Rimas slipped Mother’s wedding band off her finger. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Their laughter seemed sparse and strained compared to the great gales that had greeted Groat’s and Penny’s antics at Joffrey’s wedding feast, and some hissed at him in anger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Eat loudmouth girl now or wait for wedding feast? What does my bride think?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And then she replied, “Then, sir, look out at the privy. There is my throne. Reach inside, sir, and you shall find the wedding feast. Eat well, My Lord. Eat abundantly.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Potter bought a new dress and flew down for the wedding, but we didn't fly down together. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z For my sister Deborah, Mom wrote that she was so beautiful, she would get at least one hundred cows when she wed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When the excitement over the message had died down, and the wedding present had been found, some round games were immediately arranged for the younger members of the party. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She almost looks pretty, the way she does in her wedding photos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After their wedding, Farmer had brought Didi to Paris because he thought that, like him, she would find the city the most enchanting in the world, and a comfortable and exciting place to live. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Then Peaches gave them her whole two hundred dollars wedding gift money, which J.T. said he was going to pay back but I know he didn’t have a job. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t hold it in. I said, ‘Oh yeah, I think Janna mentioned you being there, at the wedding. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She dreamed of Drogo and the first ride they had taken together on the night they were wed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She weighed ninety-eight pounds; rings—a wedding band and one set with a diamond modest to the point of meekness—wobbled on one of her bony hands. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Caroline went to our room and came back wearing her wedding dress and a prosthetic arm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Citra sat through the wedding ceremony, but excused herself before the reception and took a publicar back to Scythe Faraday’s house, unable to bear another minute of it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Pigeon’s at practice, Dad’s at work, and Mom’s busy touching up the photos from last weekend’s wedding.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z All the fight went out of him when he heard that his queen had wed, Tyrion realized. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lying there in his bed without his wedding garments, he looked thin as a willow twig and very weak. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He put down two embroidered place mats, a wedding gift from an uncle in Lucknow, and set out the plates and wineglasses they usually saved for guests. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z By vales and sharp ravines in Lakedaimon the travellers drove to Menelaos’ mansion, and found him at a double wedding feast for son and daughter. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The vows are simple, the same kind of pledges I’ve heard at weddings of every faith. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She wiped her face on her own apron skirt, then laid out the new garments—the frilly little bonnet with ribbons and lace, a petticoat fit for a wedding. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The wedding was to be in a week, as soon as arrangements could be made, and as soon as Hattie and Olive returned from finishing school. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z "You can keep my pig as a wedding present." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “You will be playing two midgets who attend the wedding,” Olaf said patiently. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Peaches and me had gone downtown earlier looking for a wedding gift for her moms and Big Joe. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I could make her happy in her last days, pretend that the wedding is going to happen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad went to the wedding, and at the reception, they got a little drunk and back at the hotel weren’t as careful as usual. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “She took off her wedding band as she got on the bus.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z When we were kids, Constantine used to sleep out here with Carlton and me in the summer, when Mama and Daddy went to out-of-town weddings. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I was in shock. I mean, one minute I’m seeing Katniss looking so beautiful in all these wedding gowns, and the next...” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z That fall, with both the bar exam and the wedding behind me, I called my father from work one day and asked if he’d check to see if the mail had come in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes, of course, the women left briefly, to wed, to give birth, or simply assigned to some other temporary task. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not say it was beautiful, exactly—that is, not beautiful in the way a wedding kimono was. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z New Year’s Eve we gathered in Mama’s new house in Conuco, the sisters and all the husbands, a first since Maria Teresa’s wedding a year ago this February. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When I arrived at the wedding, I had the red scarf over my face and couldn’t see anything in front of me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And all the while Starnes and Mary stayed in the pictures together, from their wedding to their fiftieth anniversary. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z There is no single event for Iranians that has more significance than a wedding. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She imagined them nursing quiet plans for her wedding; her mother would think of a caterer and colors, and her father would think of a distinguished friend he could ask to be the sponsor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "We buried her quickly, Gerta. We had to. But before we did, I kissed her hand...and slipped off her wedding ring." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Is it as pretty as your wedding kimono?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Maybe if there are other mice and we can catch Ralph again, we could find him a girlfriend and have a mouse wedding.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be getting bad dreams because you’re worried about Albus, and your scar could be hurting because you’re getting old. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “I want to marry Freya. Bring her here in eight days from now. I’ll return the hammer of the gods as a bride-gift on Freya’s wedding night.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Baba paid for the child s, our matching wedding bands, and for the diamond ring I picked out. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I also designed a set of wedding rings, where each one takes the pulse of the person wearing it and sends a signal to the other ring to flash red with each heartbeat. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I glance at his hand for a wedding ring. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She explained that after her grandfather divorced her grandmother, he wed a white woman, and in 1931 he began to suspect that he was being poisoned—by his second wife. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The wedding was less than two weeks off. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z From that moment on, Mrs. Weasley kept Harry, Ron, and Hermione so busy with preparations for the wedding that they hardly had any time to think. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She felt guilty and wanted to push the wedding off a little bit to help ease the transition for all the Wedgwoods. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A fixed clock with a promise of lifetime repair brought us some dishes from an old woman who had a wedding set from her first marriage that her second husband didn’t like. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know about the wedding massacre yet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We would stay up all night gabbing, sometimes while Rosa pinned wedding dresses on me that she was altering for work. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The simple but elegant wedding took place at the home of Jimmy’s eldest sister, Helen. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Anyhow, the wedding won’t take place for years. Maybe El Patron will change his mind.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "The baby was born exactly nine months and ten days after the wedding." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I remembered him saying once, “Only a foolish man will wed her who comes easily to his bed.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You are not such a one, Hamlet, for think with what haste you wedded me yesterday. I hesitated, and you spurred me to action,” I said, hoping to divert him to thoughts of love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Dad had broken his foot on the day of their wedding, and it had not yet healed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She shoots all kinds of parties and events—weddings, bar mitzvahs, quinceaneras, graduations, anniversaries, sweet sixteens. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The destiny of his family in Chicago was wedded to the movement of trains through the Midwest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The comfortable bungalow was just blocks from the dictator’s huge wedding cake palace that the mobs had long ago burned down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “This will help awaken your gifts and wed you to the trees.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was born on August 4, on the one-year anniversary of their wedding. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Funny how saying it brings it back. At the wedding. At school. At home.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she went on to describe her wedding day: .... Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother and Sonia have gone to India for three weeks, to attend a cousin’s wedding, and this year Gogol and his father will spend Thanksgiving at the home of friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “If such thoughts are in your head, it’s time to be wed.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only that I’m so sorry you won’t get to be at my wedding...but I’m glad you at least get to see me in my dress. Isn’t it just...the most beautiful thing?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a groomsman at my wedding and remains a cherished friend and mentor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “He probably just ran away to keep Mrs. Brenner from wedding him off.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It's the arrival of a crate of wedding dresses one night with a note from Effie saying that President Snow approved these himself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Still, thirty-six hours before the sunset wedding, there were half a dozen holdouts left in the Thieves Quarter. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “This is all my fault. All of it. Taking the twenty. The wedding video. My dad shutting down our account. Freebie getting hit.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Ma was putting the final touches on her own gown for the wedding. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “I am thinking a June wedding. Is very nice in the ROC in June.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Once she signed the official document, the wedding was legally valid. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z She wears a silvery sari, a wedding gift worn for the first time, the sleeves of her blouse reaching the crook of her elbow. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Tell the boy I am sorry that I will not be with him for his wedding. I will rejoin you in Westeros. That I swear, by my sweet Serra’s hands.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “This is my wedding day. They will be dancing in the Yellow City, I do not doubt.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was my mother’s wedding dress, a gift from my father. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His frustration grew when he read a letter from Emma postponing the wedding five days. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you shall have that too, Radiance. Your wish is my command. Best tell your seneschal to begin making preparations for our wedding.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That was the other thing she’d brought along: the white cloth enfolding her silkworm eggs was nothing other than Desdemona’s wedding corset. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And in that mood, he said to Yellin by the door, “And, oh, if you see the albino, tell him he may stand in the back for my wedding; it’s quite all right with me.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Also, if robbery were the explanation, why hadn’t the robber removed the jewelry that Mrs. Clutter was wearing—a gold wedding band and a diamond ring? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z To Aeneas he sent this message, that he had a daughter forbidden by heaven to wed with any except a foreigner, and that he believed the Trojan chief was this man of destiny. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Following this, we retired to the wedding feast, which, there being no meat for the Ethiopian Regiment for two days, consisted of pork bones boiled in water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Having voted, and probably bet on the winner, people are very invested in my wedding gown. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Well, and there was the third son to wed one day soon, and with that over there was nothing left to trouble him in his life, and he could be at peace. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She was remembering the last wedding she had attended, could it be only a year ago? in Barbados. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “And I got the money on me for the wedding gift.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The wedding date of course, was unchanged—it wasn’t every day a country had a five hundredth anniversary—but all the festivities were either curtailed entirely or vastly cut down. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z An old woman with stringy arms and sunken temples and slow eyes rimmed by darkened circles of weariness, an altogether different creature from the plump, round-faced woman beaming radiantly from those grainy wedding photos. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There was no need ever to worry, not with Westley there to stop her wedding and take her away forever. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “No, but the pilot was going to take me back to the convent after the wedding. I told him to expect us.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the few who weren’t mad for Granny’s sake likely didn’t know what to say, under the circumstances, and nobody was going to risk criticism by paying a formal call or taking a wedding present. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z At the wedding, on a brown upright piano in the church, she’d put a big picture of her dad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Did you wear a kimono at your wedding?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I'm curious—have you seen him since your dad's wedding? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Is it another surprise for the wedding? Oh, Papa!” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ninety days and ninety nights without a corpse, and on the ninety-first we wed?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “So I take it this isn’t your first feature film starring an Indian wedding,” he remarks dryly. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I glance at his left hand and see his wedding ring. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Four days after Anna’s wedding, Vincent moves to Brussels for his trial period at the school. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was ravenous, having eaten nothing but cookies since the morning of the wedding. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had any chance of getting to the wedding, I should have passed the Forest on the second day, unless the baker had been mistaken about the distance from the Forest to the giants. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The aunts had gone to Bethlehem to help a distant cousin prepare for her wedding. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In her confusion, she packed riding crops and her wedding veil, a watercolor landscape, and a paper sack of birdseed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The wedding was exciting, but the most exciting day for me was when my daughter, Agot, was born. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Many citizens of Century Village were widows who had once been great family cooks, so they formed a committee to plan the wedding dinner. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I had looked forward to helping prepare Chandra on her wedding day, but Sass sent me away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The rustling sound of pants being pulled to the waist like the fitting of a wedding dress. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “So who was this wedding guy you texted me about? Any actual details?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The wedding, it seemed, was set for six days' time, at midday. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z No more me, no more star-crossed lovers living happily ever after, no more wedding. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Her wedding must have been especially blessed; before the day was over, a dozen men had died. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was keeping it, she explained, to replace the wedding ring her mother had given her, the one Dad had pawned shortly after they got married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Believe it or not, you probably won’t want broccoli in your teeth in your wedding pictures either.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Her fingers are long and tapered; her wedding and engagement rings have been welded together into one thick band. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I can’t provide factual evidence as to why weddings became such an integral part of the Iranian culture. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Mantua, celebrating a royal wedding, laid on an open-air stadium into which were crammed several thousand people a night. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This wedding offered a special attraction, for the bridegroom was a handsome, well-liked man—the tenor of Mount Zion’s Men’s Quartet, who had an enviable reputation among the girls and a comfortable one among men. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “It seemed like getting married, like being married, like you and me were married. Like the only kind of wedding we could ever have.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But in the west I could see the summer sun was already low, hovering in its own blinding light before it wedded night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In a belle époque metal frame tinged with verdigris was a photograph of his parents, Grace and Ernest, three days after their wedding. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z To look at him, you would have thought that he was the one newly wed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At weddings he still asked me to dance, regardless of how ridiculous we looked together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Me, I want as many governors as possible to come to my own wedding o. It shows levels, serious levels,” Ranyinudo said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "The gods are good. I am free to heed my heart. I will wed your sweet sister, and gladly, ser." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Dad’s taking Pigeon to his track meet, and my mom has the wedding. I have to stay home with Candy.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "After he was done with her, my father had the marriage undone. It was as if we had never been wed, the septons said." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One minute they were talking about the crazy coincidence of having met about eight years ago at some random wedding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Soon after the wedding, Shanon’s mom sent for her to come back to Ohio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She is fourteen years old, so she is of marriageable age, and I suspect we will have a wedding before too long. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Unmarried to him, this would never grieve me; but can I let him complete his calculations—coolly put into practice his plans—go through the wedding ceremony? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z At first she made things just for her family—dresses for Lou’s sister, Rosemary, wedding gowns for cousins and nieces. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z One was a wedding present to Ma Charles when she married Henry Charles, and the other she inherited when my great-great-grandmother Livonia passed away. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Yes, that's about the price. It's for a wedding present. I want them to look good. Are these all about Art?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There was even an old wedding dress in there, which Ivy thought was sort of creepy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “But he didn’t show up for the wedding.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There is an embarrassed silence in which the words her reputation are as palpable as if someone had hung a wedding dress in the air. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Nel and Jude, who had been the stars all during the wedding, were forgotten finally as the reception melted into a dance, a feed, a gossip session, a playground and a love nest. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Their wedding was blessed, and some say that their son, Fjolnir, went on to become the first king of Sweden. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z "I'm leaving. After her wedding. I just wanted to tell you to have Madam Du Barry hire a taster for your food. You've been kind to me, and I wanted to return the favor." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Rasheed’s watch too was sold, his old transistor radio, his pair of neckties, his shoes, and his wedding ring. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z This assurance is important to her; along with the Sanskrit vows she’d repeated at her wedding, she’d privately vowed that she’d never grow fully dependent on her husband, as her mother has. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The wedding had taken place that afternoon in a gaily striped tent in Billy’s backyard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have the food and I’m about to orchestrate an entertainment propo that’s sure to be popular. After all, everybody loves a wedding.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “From now on all giants will elope,” Claudia said, “rather than risk a wedding with you as a guest.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I feel a shuddering sadness that Mother will not be here to plan my wedding, not only because she’ll be dead, but because there is no wedding. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Pulling on his flight gloves, he noticed he was still wearing his wedding ring. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She dreamed of a wedding in a red bridal gown until Sula came in and woke her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z An engineer’s wife gave Miriam Mann’s daughter a shiny new penny to put in her shoe on her wedding day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She wore a dark dress, unlike the other girls in their white cotton or pastel flowery prints, so she stood out like a mourner at a wedding. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I think she had wanted to attend her sister’s wedding in America.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “I am to be wed upon the morrow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You ask when, not to whom? You are so anxious to wed?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then a tall, thickset man in blue presses his palm against my chest and he’s pushing me back out through the doors, his wedding band cold on my skin. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Amaranta felt humiliated and told Pietro Crespi with a virulent anger that she was prepared to stop her sister's wedding even if her own dead body had to lie across the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z After Mother berates me about finding a husband every other day, I have to sleep in a wedding cake. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She has an empty circle tattooed on one of her fingers like a wedding band. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And the morning of the fifteenth, on the day of the wedding celebration, it began to rain, a very bad sign. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z What terrible thing would lead Horatio to disrupt our wedding night? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Babou hated that hair. Your dad cut it to make him happy. He nearly had long hair in all our wedding pictures.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Our traditional wedding ceremonies are nothing like the standard Western nuptials. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It’s not as big as the royal wedding crowd, but it’s huge, filling up the pavement and pressed up to the gates. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, I shall ask you to begin with this cocktail, composed—would you say ‘composed?’” with an appeal to Miss Mayblunt—“composed by my father in honor of Sister Janet’s wedding.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Odin the all-highest said, “It is indeed an excellent idea. Well done, Heimdall. We need the hammer back, and this is the best way. Goddesses, prepare Thor for his wedding night.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I know this for a fact because Mom put the speeding tickets in a scrapbook, along with their wedding pictures and stuff like that. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It just would have been a way to pass time until Bas’s mother thought he was old enough to inherit his grandmother's wedding ring. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was not intended to be a big wedding. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew this from the beginning, had sensed it in their first conversation after a friend introduced them at a wedding. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “After you’re wed you can take one of them for a paramour. Or both, why not?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Wang Lung saw that these two brothers would quarrel over this yet, and he said hastily, lest he never have any peace, “Well, and it is all in honor of your wedding.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Ma Charles and Miss Trotter put their heads together to speculate about what Big Ma meant by “tired,” and if she would go through with the wedding vows. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “She said weddings mend fences. But I’m guessing you won't want to come.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z An extended rebuttal of your opponent’s arguments isn’t really necessary if you’re delivering the father-of-the-bride speech at your beloved daughter’s wedding. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I can’t tell you how often the conversation at meals has been about an Annex wedding, should the war last another five years. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Her pretty auburn hair is up in this hairdo called a chignon, like Princess Grace wears in her magazine wedding pictures. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Uncomfortable! They took my wedding ring. They kicked my Avrom in the nose. Uncomfortable!” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the wedding party yelled at the officers as they placed their friend in the back of the cruiser. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z There was bound to be someone in there who would know more about the wedding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z News of a wedding, for example, meant that the bride’s family would be preparing much food in the days preceding the ceremony; their rubbish heap would merit special attention during that time. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Jalil kept twirling his wedding band, with a bruised, helpless look on his face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was a big wedding, and big was how it needed to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He had opposed his daughter’s marriage to Colonel Moodus because he disliked attending weddings. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was odd to be riding in the pickup, the dark road ahead, a slender moon above, holding hands, as if they were young lovers again, discussing wedding plans. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you’re only taking her for the wedding, then bringing her back?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a beautiful evening, almost June now, and the wedding party files back to the dining hall for their reception just as the sun is setting. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Among those new words was one that wed grown to know far too well. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One decided to barter a stack of her wedding bracelets and commissioned a white-washer to freshen the walls of the stairwell. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The next day, the wedding day, I wear my other favorite dress, a light blue one with pleats that fall just below my knees and narrow sleeves that stop at my elbows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He took note, as did everyone, that among the uninvited guests at the wedding were a number of security police. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Certainly. Go, dear, I forgot that you have any home but this,” and Mrs. March pressed the white hand that wore the wedding ring, as if asking pardon for her maternal covetousness. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A net woven from long grass that covers the couple during their vows, the touching of each other’s lips with salt water, and the ancient wedding song, which likens marriage to a sea voyage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The night of my grandparents’ wedding, the sun set directly before the ship’s bow, pointing the way to New York. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z How could my own sisters go on and on about being flower girls, wearing pink satin dresses, and getting their hair pressed and curled for Papa’s wedding to another woman? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “I had no father at graduations, milestones, my wedding. “I lost out on a whole relationship in high school, middle school, college, without a father.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z These I was saving for my own wedding night—about which you know so much.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It had happened almost immediately after the wedding. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t see much of each other after the first year and barely at all after college, except for the occasional wedding. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Lacy is trying to explain that Mrs. de Winter is very fond of sketching as a hobby. So she gave her six fine volumes all about painting as a wedding present.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z These people, these honorary aunts and uncles of a dozen different surnames, have seen Gogol grow, have surrounded him at his wedding, his father’s funeral. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed brilliantly in white, his wedding costume. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I was thinking about that time Ma got trashed because it was her first wedding anniversary without Dad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Well, you don’t have to like him, you just have to put on a happy face and not cause an international incident at his brother’s wedding.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Lord Eddard’s daughters live. One has just been wed. The other...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were several letters about distant relatives dying, school and job acceptance letters, invitations to weddings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t make it out. She knew all about you. I wrote and told her, and so did Maxim. She was so interested in the wedding abroad.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Then he went outside, to pens where the animals were kept, and he came back into the wedding feast leading a large, extremely irritated billy goat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She was a crofter’s daughter, she loved me and she wed me, she put her trust in me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There are pictures of my two older sisters on their wedding days. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z After three calls he found a dealer who had one of the kind and size required, but this man was tied up with a wedding and couldn’t tear himself away. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z With no money to spare, they planned for a quiet, private weekday wedding and a modest honeymoon, and then Pollard would begin his long journey back to the saddle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That morning, she had taken out Lefty’s wedding crown, cutting it away from her own so he could be buried with it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “That man has been begging me to introduce him to your sister since the wedding,” Henry says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It pleased her that it took place on their wedding anniversary. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I’m going to have to find all those wedding words Mr. Kazilly gave us the other week. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z "Park probably help me do your hair on wedding day," his mom said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z When you’re down to one, use less: After Charlotte’s wedding, Lady Lucas had one less problem. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaned down and opened a compartment under my sink and lifted out a bottle of very old and reverend brandy brought along for weddings, frost bite, and heart attacks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I never did discover why she hid after her father's wedding. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Wilson kept pulling the wedding ring on and off her finger. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Unlike most American weddings I’ve attended, Iranian weddings call for formal clothing—it’s a cardinal sin to show up wearing a summer dress or something perfectly appropriate for a Sunday church service. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z At the wedding, he said he was not optimistic about the future, and that such a marriage, in such difficult times, would be unremittingly tested. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Harry, glancing at Hermione, who nodded encouragingly, “it’s about that symbol you were wearing around your neck at Bill and Fleur’s wedding, Mr. Lovegood. We wondered what it meant.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Long before going into battle, wed known wed have to see and even touch the dead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore her wedding ring and a big diamond brooch on her breast. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And it struck Obinze that, a few years ago, they were attending weddings, now it was christenings and soon it would be funerals. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Planning out the smallest details, from organizing Chandresh’s books for a new accountant to packing the suits in his flat, even down to the wedding bands on their fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z All traces of the wedding had disappeared, and the house and courtyard were bare and unfamiliar. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “How much longer, Lord Snow? If I’m to be buried beneath this snow, I’d like to die a woman wed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He said he had been kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians on the night of his daughter’s wedding. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She was pretending in those days to be a young widow, and she wore a wedding ring. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And her worn gold wedding ring stayed on his finger always. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We had lost invaluable family records, photographs, and keepsakes — even the slice of wedding cake Winnie was saving for my release. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus there was trouble between them even on the very wedding day when the guests sat about the tables and when the bride’s chair was entering the courts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I’d heard there was some problem with a wedding up in those parts ” The bald one turned back to look at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On January 23, less than a week before the wedding, she wrote about her concerns. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, I never done no wedding feast, m’lord. Black brothers don’t never take no wifes. It’s in the bloody vows, I swear ’tis.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I fumbled for words befitting the strange circumstance, for the wedding had followed with improper haste upon the king's funeral. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She had never been happier than on her wedding day, dressed in a mended but still beautiful navy blue dress. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She had to wed Joffrey, they were betrothed, he was promised to her, she had even dreamed about it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The wedding wasn’t big and fat and Greek. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z |
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