The video for the song shows the band in a water slide juxtaposed with a pregnant bride, who represent's Healy's wife, on her way to hospital to give birth.

As he stood up to get Christine he thought only of the future, of his pregnant bride and the son who would soon share the island with him.

"Ultimately, a pregnant bride is like any other bride," Ms. Lange said.

With today's pregnant brides, Ms. Roney said, "It's the flaunting of it where things are taking a turn.

While pregnant brides say they have found overwhelming support from bridegrooms, parents, friends, officiants and wedding industry vendors, some said social acceptance is not universal.

They haven't gotten arrested, produced a tell-all autobiography, or even walked down the aisle with an eight-months'-pregnant bride, as Roger Clinton did a while back.

Paulie was an eager, pregnant bride; Howard, a conspicuously reluctant groom.

Otero moved to Cuba in 1951 with his pregnant new bride.

On top of the wedding cake were two custom-made plastic figures, one of a pregnant bride.

At the end of the Merloz presentation earlier in the week, the designer came down the runway to place a ring on the finger of an obviously pregnant bride.