bridegroom
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“An hour before the ceremony, the bridegroom swaggers in in his white undershirt,” Weiss writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Assi said at least 65 people, including the bridegroom, were rescued on Monday, but 29 people, including children, were still missing.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
If the bride cannot tolerate yielding the spotlight, even for a few minutes, to her own 90-year-old grandmother, perhaps someone should warn the bridegroom.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
"We got arrested together - Asya, our friends and even her parents," said the bridegroom.
From BBC ● May 27, 2022
This wedding offered a special attraction, for the bridegroom was a handsome, well-liked man—the tenor of Mount Zion’s Men’s Quartet, who had an enviable reputation among the girls and a comfortable one among men.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Similar to the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, brides and bridegrooms left handprints and their names and wedding dates pressed into cement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
He works with more than 50 bridegrooms a year, mainly wanting a second or third wife – but insists never with underage brides.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2018
Look closely at any location, sea or beachscape, and a wedding couple will pop up — brides and bridegrooms in mixed and matched pairs: opposite sex, same sex, varied races and nationalities.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2016
Amichai starts in his usual modest, accessible way—he is sitting in a waiting room, with bridegrooms who are much younger than the poet.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
One contemporary critic described Les Noces as 'enough to convert intending brides and bridegrooms to celibacy’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
