Colonial+wedding+traditional

The American colonists customs came to America from many countries and cultures and their marriage originally shows their homelands.In Quaker settlements brides and grooms exchanged vows that they had written themselves.The couple was usually married in the brides family home by a minister.After the ceremony, there was feasting ,dancing and drinking.That sometimes lasted for days. //In the colonial marriage Fathers decided and all of his daughters were provided. While that sometimes meant arranged marriage. In the colonial wedding fathers must choose, because life was difficult and life expected short ,it was not unusual for a colonial man or woman marry three or four times in their lives. The colonial girls married between the ages 20 and 23, the men were often older. In the Pennsylvania Germans and the Dutch of New York and New Jercy conducted wedding ceremonies in their wn languages and up the civil ceremony with a celeberation. The bride and groom walked to the curch as man and a wife for the first time, they wore their festing clothing and in some curches they sit in a special seats for people to come see them.// 