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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Take down the aisle

Greetings to everybody.
I'm just translating some text and I'm not quite sure what this collocation means, "take sb down the aisle". Could anybody help me please? I understand that it has something to do with weddings.

Thank you.
Denny
  

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Traditionally, the father of the woman getting married walks with her down the aisle of the church to where her fiance is waiting for her and "gives" her to her soon-to-be husband. Modern weddings often skip any wording about the bride being "given away" but many women still want to walk down the aisle with their fathers. We usually say "walk her down the aisle" not "take her down the aisle," though.

— BarbaraPA

  • Traditionally, the father of the woman getting married walks with her down the aisle of the church to where her fiance is waiting for her and "gives" her to her soon-to-be husband.
  • Modern weddings often skip any wording about the bride being "given away" but many women still want to walk down the aisle with their fathers.
  • We usually say "walk her down the aisle" not "take her down the aisle," though.
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Traditionally, the father of the woman getting married walks with her down the aisle of the church to where her fiance is waiting for her and "gives" her to her soon-to-be husband. Modern weddings often skip any wording about the bride being "given away" but many women still want to walk down the aisle with their fathers.

We usually say "walk her down the aisle" not "take her down the ai
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Thank you so much.

Denny
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