By Marriage, Weddings

Time definitely offsets the meaning between preparing and getting ready. Another example using time is track racing. You might prepare for a race by running laps everyday, but when you run the actual race with everyone else you aren't preparing. You are getting ready, getting set, and...

You can, but I see it meaning something else. "Getting ready" has a wider scope to its meaning. You could do other things when getting ready that aren't directly related. For example, use marriage instead of skydiving. Preparing for a wedding might include sending out...

In conversation, you would say "give away." The phrase I used is only for newspaper write-ups and things like that. These days, brides may choose to be given in marriage by their father, or by both parents (as has always been the tradition for Jewish brides). Some brides prefer to...

Another option is "the bride was given in marriage by her father." To those familiar with the mechanics of the traditional wedding, this covers everything---the walk up the aisle, the response to the officiant, and then Dad's graceful mid-ceremony exit to the pew, perhaps dashing...

Do you think the title is relevant to the story? I want to say like "For all your good hope, one day, he will know it" or "Don't regret for your good doing" but can't come up with any good title. Would you mind suggesting me any? If not, it is fine. Thank you so...

. (Sigh)Leave Application I would like to apply for leave from 20 May through 6 July 2008. This would be long term leave for my marriage. My wedding date is 29 June.Thank you very much for considering my request. Rajeshwari

Perhaps Bill is a priest who loves to perform marriages for Scandinavian women. Last week he married a nice Swedish woman to her boyfriend. Takes me back to catechism many years ago. The priest insisted that at a wedding the priest did not marry anyone, the couple married each other. Even so,...

Here's a new version that I have corrected recently.Is there still any problem?In the past, parent-arranged marriages were very common. Usually young people would have their spouse decided by their parents. Nowadays in the modern period, this tradition still exists in some of the families in...

In the past, parents arranged marriages were very common. Usually young people would have their spouse decided by their parents. Nowadays in the modern period, this tradition still exists in some of the family in the world. However, I totally disagree that parents should choose the...

Why bride's parents should pay for everything in the tradition of Canada? In China, our tradition is bridegrooms or their parents pay everything because a marriage to a woman means kind of devoting the rest her life to assitant her husband and bridegrooms or their parents even should pay...