Wedding Days: When and How Great Marriages Began Reviews

Wedding Days: When and How Great Marriages Began





No woman ever forgets her wedding day. And whose heart doesn't beat faster over stories of true love? Here are 366 wedding stories spanning fifteen hundred years filled with surprise, humor, and passion. Susan J. Gordon's evocative portraits reveal how extraordinary couples met, courted, and wed, sharing little-known stories and romantic adventures.

Artists and abolitionists, celebrities and statesmen, royalty and rebels all are represented in Gordon's deft accounts of elopements, protective parents, last-minute jitters, and love at first sight.

Samuel Clemens and Olivia Langdon: The Wild Humorist was so happy in marriage that he declared, I would marry in early infancy instead of wasting time cutting teeth and breaking crockery. (February 2, 1870)

Thomas Edison and Mina Miller: Mina had so many chaperones that Tom was forced to tap his marriage proposal into her palm in Morse Code! (February 24, 1886)

Prince Khurram and Arjumand Banu Begam: Married in 1612, she was called Mumtaz Mahal Chosen One of the Palace in whose memory 20,000 workers labored 22 years to build the exquisite Taj Mahal. (March 27, 1612)

Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan: He told their ten children that when he tossed his knife and speared the edge of Rebecca's apron and she didn't get angry he knew she was the girl for him. (August 14, 1756) . . . and many more.









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