Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries
Author: first_name: Edward J.
last_name: Wood
Language: English
Year: 1869

<i>The Wedding-day in all Ages and Countries</i> is the title of a new work from the press of Harper & Brothers. In this book we find an exhaustive record of all the ceremonies pertaining to betrothal and marriage now existing, or that have existed, so far as they can be gleaned from history, in the different countries of the globe. The material thus gathered is abundantly curious. Ceremonies connected with marriage have varied greatly, and yet they seem, through all changes, to possess certain