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The following issues are subsequently accounted for: marriage settlements and their contents, marriage contract and dowry brought by the bride to her husband; wedding arrangements, including banns and publication of the banns, and stag and hen parties.

Finally, due attention is given to the wedding itself: wedding entourage, religious ceremony and civil marriage; entering the marital home, wedding cart and chattels; wedding reception, post-wedding offering and celebrations; and also unmarried status and celibacy, marriage of widows and widowers, and common-law unions.

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