Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Bride

A bonny bride is soon buskit.Scotch.

A rich bride goes young to the church.German.

A sad bride makes a glad wife.Dutch.

All is well, for if the bride has not fair hair she has a fair skin.Dutch.

At the wedding feast the least eater is the bride.Spanish.

Happy is the bride the sun shines on,
And the corpse the rain rains on.

He that has luck leads the bride to church.Dutch.

He that is an enemy of the bride does not speak well of the wedding.Spanish.

He who has the luck brings home the bride.German.

How shall the enemy of the bride speak well of the wedding.Spanish.

The weeping bride makes a laughing wife.German.

There’s no handsome woman on the wedding day except the bride.Portuguese.