Love and Marriage Part II

So for humans there are two distinct ways people celebrate weddings, depending on their class.

1) For peasants, the ceremony and festivities is fairly simple.  Usually a special place is decorated with flowers and symbols of the favored God or Goddess.  The whole village usually gathers, along with relatives from other villages.  (Sometimes other villages will gather, too, if the person is well known.)  The couple will give vows before a priest of the God, (or the mayor if no priest is available), then the celebration will ensue. Most guests will bring presents of blankets, household goods, and other items needed to start a house together.  Then a feast, provided by the woman's family (though sometimes both families chip in), will ensue.  Usually whole cows, pigs or sheep will be roasted, home made brews will be brought out and sweets of all types will be made.  This is a time of soft competition, where housewives will try their best to make the best dish to share with everyone.  Anyone who can play an instrument is pressed into service to play songs for dancing and most people enjoy the challenge.  After a good afternoon of feasting, the married couple will be escorted to their new home, (which the groom and his family have been working on before the marriage), and be left to their own devices as their relatives and friends continue to feast into the night.  Depending on the wealth of the family these feasts can be huge or just small.  In the case of some families where the daughter is well loved but the family is just not well off, the rest of the village will pitch in a little bit of food or help to get things done.

Tomorrow the human noble class.