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Support through Patreon - https://patreon.com/LibriVoxAudiobooks Merchandise - https://my-store-2993814.creator-spring.com/ The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries by Edward J. Wood (1866 - 1956) Genre(s): Family & Relationships, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) Read by: roselbex, jenno, Mohamed Ali in English Parts: Part 1 https://youtu.be/xwkYlMhlvKI Chapters: 00:00:00 - 12 - Prohibited Times for Marriage — Folk-lore on the Subject — Lucky and Unlucky Days — Hours for Marriage — Veils worn at Marriages — The Care Cloth — Crowning at Marriages — Ballad of 'I'm to be Married o' Sunday' — Distribution of Money at Marriages — Money given to Priests — Nuptial Benediction — Mass and Communion at Marriages — Tapers at Marriages — The Nuptial Kiss — Wine and Sops at Marriages — Bridemaids and Bridemen — True-love Knots — Wedding Favors — Gloves at Weddings — The Brides's Garters and the Bridegroom's Points — Bride Laces — Wedding Shoes — Bride Knives — Bouquets at Weddings — Orange Blossom — Herb and Flower Strewing at Weddings — Rosemary and Bays at Weddings 00:52:52 - 13 - Music at Weddings — Musical Priest — Dancing at Weddings — Dancing the Bride to Bed — Money given to the Poor at Marriages — Bedding the Bride and Bridegroom — The Bride's Pins — Flinging the Stocking — Sack Posset Drinking — Benediction Posset — Sewing up the Bride in the Sheets — The Bride-cake — Divinations therewith — Riding for the Bride-cake — Foot-ball at Weddings — Presents by Masters to Servants at Marriage — Royal Gifts at Weddings — Meanness of Pepys 01:25:11 - 14 - The Banns — Fleet Marriages — Marriage by Licence — Marriage during the Commonwealth — Marriage proclaimed by the Bellman — Marriage Tax — Second Marriages — Persecutions of Persons Twice Married — Batchers' Serenade, — Instances of frequent Marriages — Marriage Toll — Brides' Seat — Parish Clerk's Responses — Wedding Psalm — Wedding Pies — Marriage Settlements — Wife Selling and Leasing — Marriage of the Deaf and Dumb — Superstitions relating to Marriage — Hen Drinking — Shoe Throwing — The Petting Stone — Marriage Stone — Bell Custom — Wedding Cards The Wedding-day in all Ages and Countries is the title of a new work from the press of Harper & Brothers. In this book we find an exhaustive record of all the ceremonies pertaining to betrothal and marriage now existing, or that have existed, so far as they can be gleaned from history, in the different countries of the globe. The material thus gathered is abundantly curious. Ceremonies connected with marriage have varied greatly, and yet they seem, through all changes, to possess certain family resemblances. Almost all peoples have delighted in surrounding this event with a vast amount of ceremonious details, and, although our modern life is charged with overdoing it, yet the most pretentious celebration of our fashionable life is simplicity itself compared to what it is in some other countries, or has been in other ages. This work not only gives an account of marriage ceremonies, but includes the superstitions and folk-lore that have prevailed at different times in connection with an event which every age has seemed to consider one of the most interesting in the life of man. - Summary by Appleton's Journal of Literature Science and Art More information: https://librivox.org/the-wedding-day-in-all-ages-and-countries-by-edward-j-wood/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)