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  2. Wedding invitation - Wikipedia

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    Wedding invitation. A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in the formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date. Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host—historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother ...

  3. Matchbox - Wikipedia

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    A matchbox is a container or case made of cardboard, thin wood or metal on some models, and designed to be filled with matches. In short, is a box that contains safety matches made of wooden sticks or cardboard stripes. It commonly has a coarse striking surface on one edge for lighting the matches contained inside.

  4. Redheads (matches) - Wikipedia

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    Redhead Matchbox. Redheads is an Australian brand of matches, originally manufactured by Bryant and May in Richmond, Victoria, but now manufactured in Sweden by Swedish Match. [1] It is Australia's top-selling match brand. [2] Matches were first produced in Australia in 1909. Initially they were made of white phosphorus. [3]

  5. Phillumeny - Wikipedia

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    Phillumeny. Assorted matchboxes and match labels. Phillumeny (also known as phillumenism) is the hobby of collecting different match -related items: matchboxes, matchbox labels, matchbooks, matchcovers, matchsafes, etc. [1]

  6. England's Glory - Wikipedia

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    The song "Senses Working Overtime" by XTC contains the spoken phrases "England's Glory" and "A striking beauty", the latter being a slogan associated with "England's Glory" matches. The Macc Lads wrote a song called "England's Glory" referring to the matches. The Welsh band Stereophonics took the lyric 'It only takes one tree to make a thousand ...

  7. S. J. Moreland and Sons - Wikipedia

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    The former Moreland's match factory. S. J. Moreland and Sons was a family company, founded in 1867 and wound up in 1976. It manufactured "England's Glory" matches.

  8. Ukrainian wedding traditions - Wikipedia

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    Rushnyk – is a Ukrainian embroidered long ritual cloth. Rushnyks are very important part of the ceremony and have symbolic meaning. They are often part of the bride's dowry and have pairs of birds embroidered on them, representing the wedding couple. [1] Svashky – is a woman's choir that sings during the wedding ceremony.

  9. Marriage in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    Marriage is available in England and Wales to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and is legally recognised in the forms of both civil and religious marriage. Marriage laws have historically evolved separately from marriage laws in other jurisdictions in the United Kingdom. There is a distinction between religious marriages, conducted by an ...