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Marriage Customs

The word marriage comes from the word matrimonium. The main idea of marriage is a man to find a woman to have children with. It's very similar back then as it is today, man and woman living together and having children. Consortium means to share property, when getting married what's yours is the spouses also. You would see things about consortium a lot in Christian writings. Sharing water and fire was more important to them in marriage. Both parties had to agree to getting married. Both sides also needed the fathers consent to get married to the other. If you were wealthy then it would be "common sense" to marry another wealthy person. Your kids would most likely become wealthy if you were, same if you happen to be poor. They would usually get married in their late twenties. Women had to finish puberty before being able to marry because parents wanted her to be able to carry a good healthy pregnancy. It's not likely for women to marry after the age of thirty. Womens oppertunities and obligations mainly were depended on the husband. If your father had died before getting married there was no consent required. The ceremonies of marriage depended a lot on what religion the two were. The bride would have a tourch and was offered another torch with water. The bride would be carried over the threshold by her attendants. They would have dinner at the grooms house the next day after the wedding. After the wedding the bride would go and see the grooms house because that is where she'll live from then on.



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