bridesmaids

• “Now, there's some duh residue in (a) having eight "best" friends; (b) deciding arbitrarily that having three bridesmaids is okay but eight isn't; (c) drawing straws instead of including all of them or none of them; (d) your oldest friend taking things personally instead of just recognizing the desperate act of a desperate bride.”

  The Washington Post: Carolyn Hax: Wedding party choice has left-out friend smarting

• “The ring was on her hand, the Bishop's benediction had been given, the bridesmaids were a-poise to resume their place in the procession, and the organ was showing preliminary symptoms of breaking out into the Mendelssohn March, without which no newly-wedded couple had ever emerged upon New York.”

  The Age of Innocence

• “The ring was on her hand, the Bishop’s benediction had been given, the bridesmaids were a-poise to resume their place in the procession, and the organ was showing preliminary symptoms of breaking out into the Mendelssohn March, without which no newly-wedded couple had ever emerged upon New York.”

  XIX. Book II

• “The ring was on her hand, the Bishop's benediction had been given, the bridesmaids were a-poise to resume their place in the procession, and the organ was showing preliminary symptoms of breaking out into the”

  The Age of Innocence

• “The bridesmaids were the two prettycousins of the bride, Miss Etta Brown of Detroit and Miss Mabel Wheeler of this city.”

  The Woman's Era Vol. 2 No. 9

• “A fine clear September day, with a cool wind and a warm sun; a day upon which the diaphanous costumes of the bridesmaids might be a shade too airy; but not a stern or cruel day, to tinge their young noses with a frosty hue, or blow the crinkles out of their luxuriant hair.”

  The Lovels of Arden

• “The bridesmaids were the Ladies Emily and Louisa Challoner, the two Miss”

  The Lovels of Arden

• “Snowdon, and that her wedding-dress should be the green kirtle and wreath of the fairies, and that her bridesmaids should be her Gypsy friends, Sinfi Lovell and Rhona Boswell.”

  Aylwin

• “For many long years we have been described as the bridesmaids of hurling,”

  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “My bridesmaids are my two daughters and his two daughters (ages 15-23), and the groomsmen are his two brothers, my son, and a friend.”

  Weddingbee

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