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Weddings Weren't in Churches for a Thousand Years
Picture a wedding: the aisle, the officiant, the white dress, the vows at the altar. Now hear the history. For roughly a thousand years, Christians married at home with no clergy required, and a pope in 866 wrote that skipping the ceremony was no sin, especially for the poor. When weddings finally approached the church, they stopped at the door, literally, where Chaucer’s Wife of Bath had her five husbands, because the porch was fraud prevention for an age of secret vows. The rule that a priest must witness your marriage dates to 1563. The white dress dates to Queen Victoria. This episode…
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