1 Especially vague were her recollections of the time between her acceptance of Charles and her wedding.
2 So Charles Hamilton spent his wedding night in an armchair in the corner, not too unhappily, for he understood, or thought he understood, the modesty and delicacy of his bride.
3 Nightmarish as her own wedding had been, Ashley's wedding was even worse.
4 But there were no parties now and no wedding trips.
5 A week after the wedding Charles left to join Colonel Wade Hampton, and two weeks later Ashley and the Troop departed, leaving the whole County bereft.
6 Scarlett vaguely remembered two ladies of those names who came from Atlanta to Tara to attend her wedding and she remembered that they were Miss Pittypat's best friends.
7 Scarlett recalled that they too had been at her wedding.
8 Old Levi, Mrs. Merriwether's coachman, who had led the orchestras for every bazaar, ball and wedding since Atlanta was named Marthasville, rapped with his bow for attention.
9 And then she saw the bright gleam of her wide gold wedding ring.
10 She was tugging at her own wedding ring, the ring Scarlett knew had never once left that finger since Ashley put it there.
11 Gerald warmed to the flattery and said that the wedding had been a quiet affair, "not like you girls had," for Joe had only a few days' furlough.
12 Ellen had hinted before the wedding that marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude, and the whispered comments of other matrons since her widowhood had confirmed this.
13 Since the return of her wedding ring, Melanie had felt that Rhett was a gentleman of rare refinement and delicacy and she was shocked at this remark.
14 Nor could she borrow a dress, for the satin wedding dresses of years past had all gone into the making of battle flags.
15 She was willing, even proud to go without hairpins and buttons and nice shoes and candy and tea for the sake of the Cause, but she wanted a satin wedding dress.