in defense of the bridezilla
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The Cultural Significance of Royal Weddings
This was my first wedding that I attended and I also had to sleep on the hotel pool at couch which was invested with bed bugs. We asked of the pearls where some cultural superstition we don't have in America but her cousin had never heard of it being accustomed there so it was literally all made up from her and her mom. In 1506 Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I of Austria and King Vladislaus of Hungary and Bohemia struck this very complex royal marriage alliance. The whole idea is you would pair two aristocratic toddlers together in a holy matrimoning who serve to help foster peace across political borders as just a little example.
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