nuptials

• As soon as the nuptials were celebrated, the nobleman conducted his beautiful and afflicted bride to his seat near Bristol. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
• Yes; everything is arranged for the nuptials--carriages are sent home, jewellery received but not paid for, dresses all tried on, the party invited--nay, assembled in the blue-and-white drawing-room. —  Olla Podrida
• The "Hôtel des Tournelles"--a favorite palace of more than one king of France--was magnificently decorated; for in its great hall the nuptials were appointed to be celebrated. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• [19 ANDRIA THE FAIR ANDRIAN THE SUMMARY OF C. SULPITIUS APOLLINARIS Pamphilus seduces Glycerium, wrongfully supposed to be a sister of a Courtesan, an Andrian by birth; and she having become pregnant, he gives his word that she shall be his wife; but his father has engaged for him another, the daughter of Chremes; and when he discovers the intrigue he pretends that the nuptials are about to take place, desiring to learn what intentions his son may have. —  The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
• At the same time he procured an union between her sister, the lady Catherine, and the eldest son of his able but mean-spirited and time-serving associate, the earl of Pembroke; and a third between his own daughter Catherine and lord Hastings, son of the earl of Huntingdon by the eldest daughter and co-heir of Henry Pole lord Montacute; in whom the claims of the line of Clarence now vested These nuptials were all celebrated on one day, and with an ostentation of magnificence and festivity which the people exclaimed against as highly indecorous in the present dangerous state of the king's health. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

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