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  • Mr. & Mrs. "General Tom Thumb" in their wedding costume.
  • Mr. & Mrs. "General Tom Thumb" in their wedding costume.
  • 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.
  • A young couple visiting a draper's shop to choose material for a wedding gown. Engraving by Frederick A. Heath after W. Mulready.
  • The wedding ceremony of two deaf and dumb people conducted in sign language. Process print after H. Ash.
  • A reformed and fashionable gentleman exits from the church with his beautiful bride. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • The wedding outfits of a couple on hangers beside a table with a wedding bouquet of flowers representing an advertisement for the Program on AIDS by the Thai Red Cross Society. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • Men with spears walking past tree with figures sitting in the shade. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • The wise virgins take their lamps to the newly married couple; the foolish virgins sleep. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after D.H. Friston.
  • Two groups of bridesmaids wait by a bridge: one with candles, the other dejectedly staring at the ground; representing the biblical parable of the wise and foolish virgins. Etching by X. Steifensand after J.F. Overbeck, 1844.
  • Marriage of Rama to Sita with Brahmins making fire sacrifice. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • 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.
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.