(n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
(n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dallas nurse Amber Vinson was diagnosed with Ebola days after visiting Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal store in Akron in October.
(2) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
(3) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
(4) There's a bridal gown for three- to six-year-olds, for instance, complete with a fake corsage.
(5) It's not like we are all going to be marching into Catholic churches in bridal dresses, but you just want to have the option.
(6) Whether it was because the walks gave mixed cultural signals, or my upbringing left me in ignorance of their significance, I don’t know, but they seemed part bridal, with the girls in their snowy dresses, part May queen festival and part brass band competition.
(7) She’d started work two hours early, at 3am, so she could leave in time to help the bridal party with their hair and nails before washing her car, attaching white ribbons to the bonnet and driving people to the ceremony.
(8) I’m only eating grapefruit and steam until my wedding.” “I enrolled my whole wedding party in bridal boot camp.” “I bought my dress in a size four even though I’m a size six.” And that’s totally fine, of course, if that’s your priority.
(9) 8 The Sensual World Celtic influences meet Balkan soundscapes on The Sensual World, which employs Bulgarian folk singers and – on this title track – a Macedonian bridal dance played on Uilleann pipes.
(10) Most of all, it knows that happy endings come in all guises, not just with a bridal veil.
(11) She references the recent study as she sits with me last Saturday afternoon, taking a few minutes away from a bridal shower for her granddaughter to talk about the spill and the proposed pipeline.
(12) Commercially available bridal veil nylon (BVN) in 2.0-3,0-, and 4.0-mm hexagonal mesh is being used as a sterile dressing for burns and many surgical problems.
(13) Operators of a north-east Ohio bridal shop linked to an Ebola survivor say the store is closing because it lost significant business and has been stigmatized.
(14) As she fretted over her bridal veil, Nancy told Diana, as she always had, "Nobody will be looking at you".
(15) Health officials said Vinson went to a bridal shop in Akron on Saturday, but otherwise remained at home with her family.
(16) Why I can’t wait to be a fat bride | Lindy West Read more It’s not that I’d ever particularly yearned for a grand gesture – the relationship I cherish lives in our tiny private moments (and, as I’d later discover at my bridal shower, I’m surprisingly uncomfortable being the object of public sincerity) – but the older I get and the longer I live in a fat body, the harder it is to depoliticise even simple acts.
(17) Traditional or spiritual motivations aside, the procedure is deemed a practical necessity for many parents – without it they cannot get a high bridal price when their daughter is married – if she can get a husband at all.
(18) My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was a festival of class contempt; almost all bridal reality TV shows emphasise the greed, the covetousness, the shrill vulgarity of the female protagonist with all eyes upon her, while the real princess bride – Catherine Middleton for example – escapes any censure.
(19) As a finalist in the floristry category, Richards will spend two days in a packed exhibition hall, alongside 18 other young hopefuls from all over the world, completing tasks that could include anything from making a bridal bouquet to embellishing an item of clothing using petals and leaves.
(20) The bride's sisters made up the bridal party, and stepdad Bruce Jenner walked her down the aisle, the story said.
Nuptial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies.
(n.) Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuptials drew crowds of fans eager to witness the glitzy event, but they were kept far away from the heavily walled 16th-century fortress, which offers stunning views of Florence and surrounding Tuscan hills.
(2) Before the family planning program was introduced to rural Anhui (1972), the changing nuptiality pattern was indirectly affected by the planned social changes; after 1972, the substantial increase in age at 1st marriage was mainly due to the family planning program.
(3) Same-sex nuptials have no more of a guarantee of longevity and contentment than their heterosexual counterparts, but in a tolerant, egalitarian society, every citizen, whether gay or straight, has a right to the chance of a marital happy every after if they so choose.
(4) High nuptiality and virtually no contraceptive use in Nepal produce age-specific fertility rates very close to a natural fertility pattern.
(5) One quarter of unplanned ex-nuptial pregnancies were the result of contraceptive failure and three-quarters were the result of contraceptive non-usage.
(6) Next time the Murdochs gather en masse, they could raise a glass not just to Rupert’s impending nuptials but one of the most successful PR strategies in living memory.
(7) 4.40pm BST "Don't worry, it's not all stateside ballet and south-coast nuptials," chirps Josh.
(8) Overall, mothers of ex-nuptial children had a fairly sophisticated appreciation of contraceptive methods.
(9) One mechanism through which the local opportunity structure influenced nuptiality was occupational choice.
(10) Having elicited such a speedy proposal from Henry Tilney, Austen reassures us by telling us that he and Catherine in fact marry "within a twelvemonth" of their first meeting – not much less than the year allowed Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy between their first encounter and their nuptials.
(11) We show that this is primarily the result of declining nuptiality (and rising marital dissolution) and secondarily the result of decreases in marital fertility.
(12) Data from the 1970 National Fertility Study are used to assess the extent and determinants of post-nuptial education among women in the United States.
(13) This paper examines the changing nuptiality pattern of rural China, particularly rural Anhui, in relation to the planned social changes since 1949 and their effect on fertility.
(14) A new Father of the Bride movie will see Steve Martin's curmudgeonly dad planning the upcoming nuptials of his gay son, according to reports on nikkifinke.com .
(15) More recently, the centrally controlled social structure is loosening, due to the economic reform and the nuptiality pattern seems to join the 1972 trend, suggesting that the dramatic change of nuptiality pattern during the early 1970s to early 1980s was a temporary one.
(16) In particular, it is seen that the total number of marriages in a two-sex population neither is nor should be bounded by the total numbers of marriages in the associated male and female one-sex nuptiality-mortality tables.
(17) Nuptiality and contraceptive status are shown through charts and graphs on current marital status, differentials in age at first marriage, and marital and contraceptive status.
(18) After Kim Jong-un selected Ri, his aunt Kim Kyong-hui recommended her to his late father, leader Kim Jong-il , who approved the nuptials.
(19) Our analysis shows that nuptiality levels in nineteenth century English and Welsh districts were responsive to occupational variation and that both direct and indirect effects were significant.
(20) Among the notables sighted arriving in Florence ahead of the nuptials were Steve McQueen, director of Oscar-winner 12 Years a Slave; Lala Anthony, wife of NY Knicks basketball star Carmelo Anthony; Jaden Smith, the teenage son of Will and Jada Smith; and Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild fame.