I was just wondering

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Druidichalfelf — 21 years ago(March 09, 2005 11:40 AM)

I'm not sure, but I think it really was. I think I remember reading something like that. But I'm not sure. Just so we're clear on that.

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yvonniemo — 21 years ago(March 10, 2005 04:29 AM)

i'm a catholic and its not necessary believe me lol. some people in that time did it but not many.

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Sunflower007 — 21 years ago(March 11, 2005 04:16 PM)

~ My family & I are catholics too. My grandmother told me that was so old times tradition.
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rdstravinskas — 19 years ago(October 23, 2006 06:37 AM)

That was something done by nobility in feudal Europe

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francescher — 19 years ago(October 26, 2006 11:35 PM)

Hello Everyone! I haven't seen this movie for such a long time, and I know it is not really based on the disney movie snow white. In this movie she did not went off with the prince but she was with another man at the end??? Please let me know about that to remember things right. Thanks a lot!

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b_yanis — 19 years ago(November 28, 2006 06:28 PM)

She was with the "dwarf" (which actually wasn't a dwarf >_< ).

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irishjenny96 — 19 years ago(December 22, 2006 08:08 PM)

That was really creepy and gross. If I was that little girl, I would have been severely disturbed by it.
Are you watching closely?

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MissyBaby — 19 years ago(January 13, 2007 07:21 PM)

In those days any Royal that married was required to beseen IN BED, not having sex, with their new husband/wife, just to make sure that the marriage was consumated. Of course sometimes the marriage bed was blessed and then the husband or wife got up and slept on the day bed next to the window, or something. (Which was the case for 7 years with Marie Antionette.)
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zyggums — 14 years ago(March 29, 2012 04:34 AM)

wouldnt they hang the wedding-night sheets out of the window for the townspeople to see, too? the erm.. soiled.. sheets. To prove it was consummated.

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Lizard51867 — 12 years ago(October 06, 2013 03:02 AM)

Yep. A mention of this practice is in Othello; she tells the maid to put her "wedding sheets" on the bed if I'm remembering correctly to get Othello in the mood, because if hymen blood on the bed doesn't scream romance

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vicky_lc2001 — 13 years ago(July 12, 2012 12:54 PM)

The party or group of people seeing the newly weds naked in bed was more of a Nordic or Northern European tradition than a Roman Catholic one. Even George R.R. Martin uses this historical trivia in his Game of Thrones saga.
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georgegliddy — 12 years ago(August 22, 2013 07:32 PM)

well sir it seemed like was goin 2 b such orgy 2 me..well it was disgusting and i wud hope it wud NOT b reel ever

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Lizard51867 — 12 years ago(October 06, 2013 03:08 AM)

I don't know about tossing the wine on them, because that would totally defeat the purpose of saving the bloody marriage sheets (yeah, that was a thing). But the "onlookers" was definitely a thing, as was the priest blessing them and their beds. A similar scene occurs in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.
The presence of "onlookers" is actually quite tame. The tradition of tossing the bride's garter belt comes from the fact that at one time, the wedding guests were in such a rush to see the newlyweds get it on, they'd pull the bride's clothes off. And that's why the reception exists at all, to give the couple a little breathing room before they go off an consummate to their heart's content.

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ricky_says_hi — 12 years ago(December 29, 2013 07:22 PM)

Part of the ceremony. Bless the bed in the hopes that Claudia becomes pregnant immediately and delivers healthy sons for Friedrich. It would only be done with nobility or upper classes - essentially families that
needed
plenty of heirs for the property
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