3 Ancient Roman Wedding Customs I Used (and 3 that I didn't)

This is the third and final video in my series on Roman weddings. In this last installment, I chat about some of the ways that I adapted Roman customs to fit my own wedding, which was this past summer. You can really tell how exhausted I am in this one, so, apologies if it's kind of rambling. I also failed to mention that marriages (not relationships, a separate topic) were pretty much exclusively between a man and a woman. One of the main goals of marriage was procreation, so that type of union was almost entirely limited to heterosexual couples. Some of the scant evidence we have for Roman weddings (primary and secondary): Catullus, poems 61, 62, 64 Plautus, Casina Hersch, Karen K. The Roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2010. You may also want to look at mythological weddings from Greek and Roman sources, such as Peleus and Thetis, as well as artistic depictions. My wedding photos were done by the incomparable Kristin Griffin, based in Massachusetts: https://www.kristingriffinphotography... All other images are from Wikimedia Commons unless otherwise specified in the video. Stock video from Envato Elements. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:49 What we share with Roman weddings 10:30 3 customs I'm using 17:03 3 customs I'm not using 23:38 Honorable mention 24:25 Conclusions Theme music: "Descent from the Olympos Pentatonic." (original) Website: www.hearthofhaemonia.com  IG: @hearthofhaemonia Contact: [email protected]