XIR23898: The Wedding Meal at Yport, 1886 (oil on canvas), Fourie, Albert-Auguste (1854-96) / Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France / Bridgeman Images

WGL102797: The Wedding Morning, 1892 (oil on canvas), Bacon, John Henry Frederick (1868-1914) / Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool / Bridgeman Images

ROC399041: Queen Victoria, 1847 (oil on canvas), Winterhalter, Franz Xaver (1805-73) / Royal Collection Trust / Bridgeman Images

PHD469: The three brides, 1892-93 (chalk, pencil & charcoal on paper), Toorop, Jan Theodore (1858-1928) / Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands / Bridgeman Images

XIR63422: The Wedding Reception, c.1900 (oil on canvas), Beraud, Jean (1849-1935) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BAL41749: The Unequal Marriage, 1862 (oil on canvas), Pukirev, Vasili Vladimirovits (1832-90) / Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia / Bridgeman Images

PHD30250: The bride, 1892-93 (oil on canvas), Prikker, Johann Thorn (1868-1932) / Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands / Bridgeman Images

WGL203789: The Dress Rehearsal, 1828 (oil on canvas), Tayler, Albert Chevallier (1862-1925) / Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool / Bridgeman Images

BAL13723: Call to Arms, 1888 (painting), Leighton, Edmund Blair (1853-1922) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XIR208405: Evening, 1911 (oil on canvas), Ferrier, Gabriel-Joseph-Marie-Augustin (1847-1914) / Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee du Petit-Palais, France / Bridgeman Images

MOU316408: Portrait of a Lady, 1590s (oil on canvas), Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

STC91330: Evening Wedding on the Balcony, c.1920 (stencil on paper), Martin, Charles (1848-1934) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XAB126088: Before the Wedding, 1880s (oil on canvas), Pryanishnikov, Illarion Mikhailovich (1840-94) / Museum of Art, Serpukhov, Russia / Bridgeman Images

STC102857: Wedding dress, fashion plate from Ackermann's Repository of Arts (coloured engraving), English School, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XIR215951: A Wedding in Lower Alsace (oil on canvas), Pabst, Camille Alfred (1821-98) / Musee d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France / Bridgeman Images

BAL13848: The Wedding Dress, Kilburne, George Goodwin (1839-1924) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

CH375592: The Wedding, Church of St. Roch, Paris (oil on canvas), Kaemmerer, Frederik Hendrik (1839-1902) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KSL247502: Portrait of Margaretha Tulp as a Bride, 1655 (oil on canvas), Flinck, Govaert (1615-60) / Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel, Germany / Bridgeman Images

NGV114852: The First Cloud, c.1887 (oil on canvas), Orchardson, William Quiller (1832-1910) / National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia / Bridgeman Images

TAD1743649: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their return from the marriage service at St James's Palace, London, 10th February 1840, engraved by S. Reynolds, 1840 (engraving), Lock, Frederick William (fl.1843-1871) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

HGL615365: Bride in Nylon, front cover of the 'DuPont Magazine', June-July 1946 (colour litho), Alexander, John & Garfield, John (fl.1946) / Hagley Museum & Library, Wilmington, Delaware, USA / Bridgeman Images

MEP2363162: The Shah of Persia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at his marriage with Farah Diba, 1959 / Bridgeman Images

DH307649: Jewish Wedding, 2003 (oil on canvas), Holzhandler, Dora (1928-2015) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

CH401098: Spring Morning, rue Mt. Cenis, Montmartre, 1889 (oil on panel), Hassam, Childe Frederick (1859-1935) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

CHT177470: Wedding dress, fashion plate from 'Costumes Parisiens', 1831 (coloured engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images

MOU349908: Portrait of Queen Victoria (w/c on paper), Drummond, William (1800-c.1850) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

MNS488024: Marriage, 1893 (oil on canvas), Melchers, Julius Gari (1860-1932) / Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA / Bridgeman Images

PHL2910083: Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress, 1956 (silk, tulle & seed pearls), Rose, Helen (1904-85) / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA / Bridgeman Images

PHL2910085: Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress, 1956 (silk, tulle & seed pearls), Rose, Helen (1904-85) / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA / Bridgeman Images

NCO190143: Le Baiser a la Wirtembourg, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1797 (hand-coloured etching), Gillray, James (1757-1815) / Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford / Bridgeman Images

SAG65027: The New Frock, 1919 (oil on canvas), Elwell, Frederick William (1870-1958) / Sheffield Museums Trust, UK / Bridgeman Images

PHL2910088: Grace Kelly's Wedding Wreath, 1956 (silk, tulle & seed pearls), Rose, Helen (1904-85) / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA / Bridgeman Images

XJF283188: The Marriage of The Princess Charlotte of Wales with Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, 2nd May 1816 (etching) (b/w photo), English School, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

LIT389537: Chinese wedding (b/w photo) / Singapore / Bridgeman Images

XIR162390: Before the Wedding, 1890 (oil on canvas), Makovsky, Konstantin Egorovich (1839-1915) / Museum of Art, Serpukhov, Russia / Bridgeman Images

CHT163493: Illustration for 'Bel-Ami' by Guy de Maupassant (1850-93), published by Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1895 (engraving) (b/w photo), Bac, Ferdinand Sigismund (1859-1952) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images