The girl in the latest case was so frightened that on the wedding night she locked her husband outside the bedroom and eventually escaped back to her parents, local media reports say.

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And my instructor was actually at a wedding the night before and somebody was missing.

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"I didn't go around a fire on my wedding day, " says one young Uzbek man, referring to the pre-Islamic wedding ritual the bride and groom are required to perform on their wedding night.

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One couple allegedly made the discovery, on their wedding night, that Mr Hargis had slept with them both.

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The night before our wedding, Eleanor and I stood awkwardly in the center of a large room, surrounded by our family and our closest friends.

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In January, a video was posted to Google-owned YouTube that featured a bride-to-be panicking about her new hairdo and cutting it off the night before her wedding.

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Not surprisingly, local wine and souvenir shops mark this alcoholic miracle with bottles of local merlot, while travellers can stay a night at the Cana Wedding Guesthouse, where accommodation ranges from dorms to large family bedrooms.

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The filmmaker famous for Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive has lent his name to a signautre suite at the Hotel Lutetia, an Art Deco Left Bank establishment that has given haven to the likes of Josephine Baker, the sculptor Arman and Charles de Gaulle on his wedding night.

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This is how I whiled away one long summer night at a wedding reception on the Baltic coast of Sweden: hearing toasts, crooning local drinking songs and draining a profusion of little nips bottles of something called snaps (which is pronounced "schnahps, " but is very different from dessert-like schnapps).

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