Possible Clues:

• Always weds prior to them
• . . . . . . . . . child has far to go
• Days of the Norse god of thunder
• Days for the Norse god of thunder
• Home of an NBC comedy block from 1983 to 2015
• '. . . . . . . . . child has far to go'
• The preliminaries to getting wed
• One always weds before them
• One always weds before them (though not necessarily in the 9 across)
• ` `......... child has far to go' '