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  • A wedding procession by night; a groom sitting in a palanquin, preceded by musicians, torch-bearers, guards and attendants. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Group portrait with l. to r., Patricia Lewis, Sinclair Watson, and (far right) Sir H. Dale, at the wedding of Patricia Lewis and Sinclair Watson,
  • Baron Donderdronkdickdorff and Miss Quoltz: after their wedding, they quarrel and are surprised by a servant. Etching, 1810, attributed to I. Cruikshank and/or G. Cruikshank.
  • The "Aldobrandini wedding": a group of women prepare a young bride for her marriage. Engraving by A. Mochetti after Aloysius Agricola after a fresco painting.
  • A Breton wedding: village people in costume dance in a circle under trees as musicians play the bagpipes and flute. Lithograph by H. Lalaisse after himself.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman in profile to the right wearing a wedding head-dress and veil. Coloured line block, 1876, by Rigolet (?).
  • Natal, South Africa: an African man acting as the official witness at a Zulu wedding at Henley. Photograph by Agnes Henderson, Mrs G.G. Henderson, 1905.
  • A wedding procession: the groom riding on a horse accompanied by people playing music and carrying colorful pennants. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Two dwarfs: Minnie Warren and Commodore Nutt, bridesmaid and groomsman at the wedding of General Tom Thumb in New York. Photograph by Mathew Brady, 10 February 1863.
  • Profile : from sloane to regent : Rohit Mehta's Nutri Centre may parallel a royal wedding but this enterprise marries vision with practical nutritional help / Auriel Mott.
  • Profile : from sloane to regent : Rohit Mehta's Nutri Centre may parallel a royal wedding but this enterprise marries vision with practical nutritional help / Auriel Mott.
  • The bridal party : wedding of two of Fred Roper's midgets : George Stoddart, 32 years old, 34 inches high, Eva Crane, 27 years old, 38 inches high.
  • The bridal party : wedding of two of Fred Roper's midgets : George Stoddart, 32 years old, 34 inches high, Eva Crane, 27 years old, 38 inches high.
  • A young woman has the laces of her bodice loosened by her new husband on their wedding night. Coloured lithograph by Bettannier brothers, 1851, after L.-F. Corréard.
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dresed with high chignons and flowers; the central figure wears a wedding veil. Coloured line block, 1876.
  • Three silhouette line figures with four further figures within holding pictures relating to Indian wedding ceremonies representing an AIDS prevention advertisement for families by GAP-SIRMCE. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • The wedding of Kloris and Roosje: a couple dance to the music of a fiddler, other people sit at a table eating and drinking. Engraving by P. Tanjé after C. Troost, 1734.
  • A wedding procession: the bridegroom sits on a horse surrounded by a large crowd carrying decorations and pennants, accompanied by a band of musicians. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A gay couple cutting their wedding cake; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for gay and bisexual men by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.
  • The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • Drunken and diseased people attending the wedding of William Huntington and the rich widow Sanderson; behind Huntington is a devil handing breeches to a hack journalist. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman in profile to the left wearing a high chignon decorated with flowers and a wedding veil. Coloured line block, 1875, by A. Max after Saug (?).
  • Zantedeschia aethiopica (L)Spreng. Calla lily, Arum lily. Half hardy annual. Distribution: South Africa. The genus name commemorates Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773-1846) an Italian physician and botanist. Born in Molina he studied medicine in Verona and Padua. He corresponded with the German botanist, Kurt Sprengel, who named the genus Zantedeschia in his honour in 1826, separating it from Calla, where, as C. aethiopica, it had been previously described by Linnaeus. He had broad interests, including the effect of different parts of the spectrum of light on plant growth, reporting in 1843, that red, orange and yellow light are heliotropically inactive. The botanic museum in Molina is dedicated to his memory. Aethiopica, merely means 'African'. The leaves are used as a warm poultice for headaches in ‘muthi’ medicine. It has become an invasive weed in parts of Australia. It was introduced, as a greenhouse plant, to Europe in the mid-17th century, where the long lasting flowers are popular in flower arranging and for weddings and funerals – a curious combination (Oakeley, 2012). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Two actors pose as a wedded couple.
  • Two actors pose as a wedded couple.
  • A wedding in Brittany: the women of the family adjust the young bride's dress as music is played and the groom and guests wait on the stairs to enter the room. Etching by C.O. Murray after Henry Mosler.
  • A queen sits on a throne in ornate surroundings, below is an inscription to the wedding of Nicolaas de Vicq and Maria Jacoba van Reit. Etching with engraving by L. Scherm, c. 1701, after J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet.
  • Group portrait with l. to r., Sir H. Dale and Lady Dale, Edgar Hope Simpson, Elinor Mary (younger daughter of Sir H. Dale), Sir William Arthur Stanier (d. 1965) and his daughter, Joan; at wedding of Patricia Lewis and Sinclair Watson
  • A couple just married outside a church, a butterfly emblem symbolising a Hindu wedding, and a mosque with a prayer book and two bearded men with the warning of no sex before or outside marriage; an AIDS prevention advertisement for families by GAP-SIRMCE. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • An equestrian entertainment in the Boboli gardens, Florence, celebrating the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany and Vittoria della Rovere, 1637: the carriage viewed against the Pitti Palace, the arena, and bird's eye views of the formations. Etching by S. Della Bella after A. Ricci and F. Gambrai.