Wedding In The Elizabethan Era

Logan: First: Elizabethan era wedding were held at the bride or grooms local church.

Second:

Weddings were always a religious ceremony, conducted by a minister. The religions varied but the legal process prior to the wedding was always the same. There were no Registry Office marriages or marriages conducted by a Justice of the Peace. The first stage was Crying the Banns, announcing a couple's intention to marry. The same procedure still applies to Church marriages in England today. The Elizabethan Wedding custom dictated that the couple's intention to marry had to be announced in the church three times on three consecutive Sundays or Holy days. This allowed time for any objections to be raised or pre-contracts to be discovered. Any marriage not published beforehand was considered clandestine and illegal. Wedding invitations were not issued. People lived in small communities

Post-Reformation, the ceremony itself invariably took place indoors. The bridegroom would stand to the right, the bride to the left. The priest would read the banns and ask three times if there was anything that would prevent the marriage from taking place, much the same as