The bride-to-be’s father, a very nice man, announced that he would be paying for the wedding “as is tradition” in order to help the couple, as they are still just starting their careers.

Bride price in Nigeria is a custom that requires the groom to pay in return for the family’s consent and blessings for the bride to start a new family; however, some of these bride prices are ...

as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels!" (Is 61:10) IV And so it was with the Jerusalem praised by the psalmists. Jesus himself and Mary his mother ...

One couple I know had a beautiful, expensive wedding, but the marriage foundered after a few years partly because the bride’s mother was a constant ... used sums this up perfectly – the word ...