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In the ancient Greek society, marriage was viewed as a promising relationship. The marriage was very important to carry family chain.

In Greek culture, every respectable woman became a wife, if she could. In marriage, there was hardly room for choice. Destiny played an important role in solemnizing marriages.

Woman had no alternate other than marriage. The sacred wedding rituals were woven of the various ceremonies. These ceremonies had ritual significance and overlapping rituals.

There is much evidence of these formalities, both literary and artistic, which helps to give a full explanation of the Greek heritage.

Specials, dedications and sacrifices were made by the bride and groom. Marriage consisted of a private contract where the woman was transferred to her husband. Marriage consisted of transfer and transformation.

Transformation actually means giving responsibility to the woman. Many things pointed toward her transformation like cutting hair and offer them to virgin deities. Present hair locks to the goddess often mean the fulfillment of womanhood.

Greek society emphasizes the marriage of a girl at the age of fourteen. Boys are found eligible in the age of thirty, after they have served military power. Girls are required to marry where their father's wishes.

Various types of rituals followed in the marriage. Both bride and groom take a bath in the holy spring. On the wedding day, the girl dressed in traditional attire. She is caught in a veil of banquet hall. She is accompanied of her friends and relatives.

Groom attire in the best outfit when the bride's home with a procession of friends, acquaintances and family members. Drumming and crackers are burst to mitigate the evil spirit away spirits. Music and dance play a large role in the festivities. The bride and groom wear a crown or garland to mark the event.

The actual transfer of the bride from father to groom takes place at night after the bridal banquet.

After the great feast procession in a chariot made from the home of the bride the home of the groom. The bride is the car which her husband mounts it in preparation for their trip. Families follow the wagon on foot with gifts. Bride's mother to bear the torch in the journey night to light the road.

The bride eats an apple as part of the insertion rituals, showing her new union with her husband. Fruits and nuts are showered on couple who act as agents of fertility and prosperity.

A day after the marriage, an outdoor procession of people are incurred.

It is called Epaulia. It is an outdoor procession of people bringing gifts. Gifts generally include vases filled with green, baskets, pots, furniture, jewelry and combs.

Athenian marriage the relationship between a man and a woman who had the primary purpose of producing children and maintaining the identity of the social and political community.

In the old Sparta, the ceremony was very simple. After a fight, to prove that his superior strength, the groom would throw his bride over his shoulder and carried her out.

Slaves in the ancient Greek culture can not marry, because marriage was considered only for the privileged class.

Any child who is born from their masters were disposed off, because slaves have no right to educate children

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