Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/cu31924023267358The 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)
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Genres for the project: Non-Fiction- Family and Relationships
Keywords that describe the book: church, marriage, Greek, married, ballad, Lovers, bridal, hair, girl, woman, Brahmin, knot, contract, maids, seventeenth century, wine, wife, polygamy, custom, dancing, parents, betrothal, dance, shoes, uganda, door, servants, wives, husband, tonquin, cake, bride, bridegroom, gloves, gift, bedouin, banns, cecrops, chemise, confarreatio, consent, copt, couple, espousal, garters, posset, rosemary, stocking, token, torches, wallachia, bride and bridegroom, bride's father, bride's house, bridegroom's house, relations and friends, wedding day, wedding ring
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