The following links will give you some insight into how weddings in the past were carried out. They cover more on the traditions than the weddings themselves. This tells you about traditions and customs of the Victorian Wedding: http://shootingstarent.tripod.com/wedding.html Mainly about marriage on the Isle of Man but still very interesting and probably applies to much of England: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/famhist/genealgy/marr.htm Wedding Customs part 1: http://pub12.ezboard.com/fbookaholicshistoricalromance.showMessage?topic ID=30.topic Wedding Customs part 2: http://pub12.ezboard.com/fbookaholicshistoricalromance.showMessage?topic ID=31.topic Women and marriage in the C19th: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmarriage.htm Chris and Caroline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.592 / Virus Database: 375 - Release Date: 18/02/2004