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Lotsa words for that.
Yeah, like what?
Got the "trouve"...but not the bis and the bague...
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From Faust, where poor Marguerite gets chided for not waiting "until the ring is on the finger".
bague is ring, doigt is finger
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"bis sur le doigt se trouve la bague"
A little bit of early Europanto?
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Marry! - an oath meaning "May Mary help me!"
I guess there's no connection...
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If it's a happy marriage, then you could say they merried each other.
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re: Commit matrimony? ... you make matrimony sound like a crime! shouldn't it be 'commit to matrimony?'
But if it isn't a crime, why do you get locked in wedlock?
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I’m in a nice bit of trouble, I confess.
Somebody with me has had a game.
I should now be a proud and happy bride,
But I’ve still got to keep my single name.
I was proposed to by Obadiah Binks
In a very gentlemanly way,
Lent him some money
So that he could buy a home,
And punctually at twelve o’clock to-day -
There was I, waiting at the church,
Waiting at the church, waiting at the church,
When I found he’d left me in the lurch.
Lor, how it did upset me!
All at once, he sent me round a note.
Here’s the very note; this is what he wrote:
"Can’t get away to marry you today,
My wife won’t let me!"
incidentally, did y'all know that tie the knot comes from the grecian tradition of tying a girdle around the bride for the groom to undo after the wedding
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did y'all know that tie the knot comes from the grecian tradition of tying a girdle around the bride for the groom to undo after the wedding
Glad the expression wasn't tying the girdle. 
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Not really on topic, I know... but I was at a wedding a couple of weekends ago, and the father of the bride played this song to his new son-in-law. http://www.seanmorey.com/mansong.htmlThe whole crowd was in stitches, especially knowing the bride!! 
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"bis sur le doigt se trouve la bague"My dear mother's expression to describe this phenomenon was, "they started their dinner before the gong sounded."
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