How have weddings changed from the elizabethan era?
In the Elizabethan era, the custom was for the bridegroom and his friends to go to the bride’s house and fetch the bride away to the church. the bride was supposed to seem reluctant to go, sometimes she and her friends would even barricade themselves into the house and the groom and his friends would be expected to force their way intot he house to ‘capture’ the bride. The bride and bridegroom would be escorted to the church by their friends. They would go in procession, escorted by a band of musicians. In ‘Elizabethan england’ Alison Plowden writes: ‘The white wedding of satin, orange blossom and veil is, in fact, a comparatively recent innovation, dating from about the mid 18th century. An elizabethan bride would simply wear her best dress trimmed with ‘favours’ of coloured ribbon, though she always appeared ‘in her hair’ that is, with her hair hanging loose over her shoulders as a token of virginity – and would be garlanded with flowers and ears of corn. Everyone else was in their b
