As I prepared to travel to the U.S. around Yule last year, I often received enquiries about my journey. The fact that the spiritual aspects of their wedding probably meant more to the participants than anyone else the enquirer had ever previously come across, was usually also lost.
Weddings are interesting.
They form a common backdrop to the lore of myth and saga that we have inherited, yet closer examination of the material shows that there is surprisingly little that is explicit about how the wedding rituals were conducted. We trawled through the literature and were inspired by what little we did find, but much remained a tantalizing mystery. This raises two questions. Compare this with church weddings in modern novels. Very rarely, unless there is a pertinent twist of the plot.