
Wedding Rites
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terms and Texts
- Preface
- Introduction: Having a Traditional Wedding
- I. Sealing the Engagement: Betrothals and Banns
- Betrothal, or "Handfasting"
- A Shakespearean Betrothal
- A French Solemn Betrothal Rite
- The Byzantine Betrothal
- An Olde German Betrothal
- A Jewish Tenaim
- The Reading of the Banns
- Roman Catholic
- Lutheran
- Anglican/Episcopalian
- Advice
- II. Feasts for the Ear, Feasts for the Eye: Music and Flowers
- Music
- Marches
- Service Music
- Other Music
- Wedding Score Samples
- Flowers
- Advice
- III. Holy Writ: Allocutions and Readings
- Allocutions
- Eighteenth-Century America
- Elizabethan England
- Luther's Germany
- Calvin's Geneva
- Nineteenth-Century France
- Bible Readings
- The "Epistle"
- The Gospel
- Advice
- IV. Vows
- A Selection of French Medieval Vows
- Barbeau
- Rouen
- Meaux
- Paris
- Cambrai
- Avignon
- Paris (2)
- A Selection of Vows from the Renaissance and Beyond
- Roman Catholic (Tridentine)
- Anglican
- Episcopalian
- Lutheran
- Calvinist
- Presbyterian
- Quaker
- The Declaration of Marriage
- The Jewish Marriage Contract, or Ketubah
- Advice
- V. Ceremonies
- Sacred Coverings
- The Chuppah
- The Carecloth
- The Crowning
- The Uncrowning
- The Loving Cup
- Jewish
- Byzantine
- Western Christian
- Circling
- The Ring
- Blessing the Ring
- Giving the Ring
- Tying the Knot
- The Arrhae, or Coins
- The Blessing of Coins
- The Endowment of Coins
- A Good Book
- Presentation of Flowers to the Mother of God
- The Kiss
- The Unity Candle?
- Advice
- VI. Blessings
- A Father's Blessing
- Jewish
- Christian
- Solemn Nuptial Blessings
- Roman Catholic (Tridentine)
- Byzantine
- Jewish
- Lutheran
- Anglican/Episcopalian
- Calvinist
- Biblical Blessings
- Aaronic
- Tobian
- Concluding Blessings
- Germany, 1502
- Germany, 1521
- England, 800s
- England, 1100s
- France, 1500s
- Spain, 800s
- Germany, 1502 (2)
- Tridentine
- Byzantine
- Anglican/Episcopalian
- Consummation Blessings
- Eastern France, 1513
- Ireland/Spain, 800s
- France, 700s
- Advice
- VII. Postnuptials
- Before the Reception: Yichud
- At the Reception
- The Loving Cup
- The Blessing of the Bread
- The Toast
- Jewish Grace after the Meal
- Wedding Brooms
- After the Reception: Consummation Rites
- The Day After: Introducing the Newlyweds
- The Sunday After: Bride's Sunday and Kirkin'
- Eight Days After: The Dismissal of the Crowns
- Advice
- VIII. Putting It All Together
- Time and Place
- The Three Classics
- Jewish
- Roman Catholic (Tridentine)
- 1790 Book of Common Prayer
- Interdenominational and Interfaith Weddings
- Protestants of Different Denominations
- Protestant/Catholic
- Jewish/Gentile
- Wedding Programs
- Synoptic Programs
- Comprehensive Programs
- Advice
- Appendixes
- Wedding Album Recordings
- The Language of Flowers and Color
- Scripture Readings for the New Catholic Rite of Marriage
- A Selected Bibliography of Works Consulted
- Permissions
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