One has just been wed.
She will wed her daughter to a rich man.
He chafes at the unhelpful pressure to wed from his parents and neighbours.
There are any number of reasons why individuals might wed their academic equals.
When Rockets star Tracy McGrady wed CleRenda Harris in October 2006, the couple embraced the publicity.
In his red ear then she whispered, "Why'd I wed you?"
In the meantime, wed get lots of bad stories full of innuendo and speculation.
Sayako is the youngest child of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko and the last of their three children to wed.
I don't mean they find a rich heir or heiress to wed, though that might not hurt.
Now he has bought a house for the couple and hopes that one day they can wed.
The ONS figures also showed that by last year a third of couples who wed in 1995 had divorced.
It was over lunch at the gleaming Lake Palace Hotel, occupying an island in the background, that they confirmed their intention to wed. Photograph by Steve McCurry.
One of them was my mother, Lyudmila Bibikova, who had been fighting for six years to be allowed to wed my father, a Welsh academic.
The 32-year-old "Desperate Housewives" actress and the 25-year-old NBA star wed in a civil ceremony in Paris last Friday.
People magazine reports that the two were wed in a secret ceremony last night, and have already shipped off on their honeymoon!
In the United Arab Emirates many males (a third of Dubai men, for example) wed foreigners, at a quarter of the price of marrying a local girl.
China's newly wed basketball sensation, Yao Ming, said babies would take a back-seat to Olympic preparations as the host country began the one-year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Games.
In New York state, couples wishing to wed must typically wait 24 hours after the issuance of the marriage licence before they are allowed to hold the marriage ceremony.
"I did some research and saw that there were two or three days that every culture agrees on as lucky days," said Fitzgerald, who will wed in Sandy Hook, N.J., near her and Allsopp's hometown.
They wed in 1964 after she divorced Fisher, and Burton bestowed furs and diamonds, including a $1 million pear-shaped diamond, on Taylor while publicly praising her “wonderful bosom".
