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      <title>Typical Renaissance Wedding by Caroline Cusolito</title>
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      <description>Wedding Ceremonies, Traditions, Attire, &amp;amp; Feasts

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      <pubDate>2015-03-26 03:06:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>A Renaissance Bride&#39;s Dress</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Something old, something blue." </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Wedding Cake</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Wedding cakes were one of the many treats served at Renaissance weddings.&nbsp; Other desserts included different breads and fruits, such as apples, pears, quinces, peaches, strawberries, and raspberries. &nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Rice Used to Throw at Newlyweds</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Both a Renaissance and modern day&nbsp;tradition, the rice symbolizes fertility and good fortune. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2015-03-26 04:09:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The honour of your presence is requested....</title>
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         <pubDate>2015-03-26 04:33:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Sources</title>
         <author>ccusolito</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Websites</p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/index.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/marriage_traditions.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/marriage_traditions.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/the_betrothal.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/the_betrothal.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/religion_during_renaissance.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/religion_during_renaissance.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/nobles_and_peasant.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/nobles_and_peasant.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/wedding_tradition.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/wedding_tradition.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/renaissance_fashion.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/renaissance_fashion.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/wedding_feasts.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/wedding_feasts.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/love_and_chivalry.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/love_and_chivalry.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/romantic_love.htm" target="_blank">http://www.renaissance-weddings.net/romantic_love.htm</a></p><p>All one website, ten different tabs &nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://weddings.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Renaissance_Wedding_Ceremony" target="_blank">http://weddings.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Renaissance_Wedding_Ceremony</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2015-03-26 04:59:34 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Caroline Cusolito Period 5 Seat #4</title>
         <author>ccusolito</author>
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         <pubDate>2015-03-27 17:16:18 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Important Information </title>
         <author>ccusolito</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Leading up to a lavish wedding ceremony and celebration comes the long anticipated wait of two lovers and their families.&nbsp; Families arranged marriages&nbsp;for the bride and groom&nbsp;when they&nbsp;were only between&nbsp;the ages of ten and eleven.&nbsp; Marriage arrangements&nbsp;were based on social classes, for example, the nobility would marry&nbsp;each other&nbsp;to receive land and grow their family names.&nbsp;Not only were the&nbsp;bride and groom going to marry each other, but they&nbsp;were also going to&nbsp;"marry" into each others' families.&nbsp; About forty days before the wedding day, the couple would meet with a priest to&nbsp;exchange their rings and make commitment&nbsp;promises.&nbsp; On this day, known as the Betrothal, the&nbsp;soon-to-be&nbsp;groom would pay a large sum of money to officially stamp his agreement to&nbsp;marry&nbsp;his future wife and promise her&nbsp;his land estates and wealth.&nbsp; When planning a wedding during the Renaissance&nbsp;Era, the couple had to be sure they were not planning their wedding day around the holidays of&nbsp;Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost.&nbsp; The requirement emphasized the importance of those three major&nbsp;holidays in which there could not be an interference of celebrations.&nbsp; </p><p>Wedding ceremonies were usually held&nbsp;at the bride's house, but other locations included the outdoors, medieval castles, and chapels.&nbsp; The couple would exchange vows with rings and partake in handfasting, or the&nbsp;literal binding&nbsp;of their hands with a ribbon&nbsp;to join the lives of both the bride and groom.&nbsp; As seen on the left, the bride would wear a blue dress, symbolizing&nbsp;her purity as a young woman.&nbsp; Without the blue dress, a bride would be seen as a woman who is&nbsp;not pure,&nbsp;referring to the saying, "Something old, something&nbsp;blue."&nbsp; Another sign of purity was the veil,&nbsp;which was also&nbsp;blue to match the symbolism of the&nbsp;dress.&nbsp; The significance of the veil was that it&nbsp;kept the bride&nbsp;away from "the evil eye."&nbsp; Accessorized with flowers, herbs, and wheat, the bride was clothed&nbsp;in happiness,&nbsp;luck, and fertility.&nbsp; At the wedding feast,&nbsp;various amounts&nbsp;of meat and fish&nbsp;were served, such as quail, goose, boar, peacock, and oysters.&nbsp; Common vegetables included carrots, cabbage, lettuce, onions, parsley, and asparagus.&nbsp; The&nbsp;traditional tiered wedding cake was a common&nbsp;feature of the Renaissance weddings; the couple's guests would bring tiers to stack on top of one another.&nbsp; If the couple could kiss over the cake without knocking down the tiers, good luck would be brought to their marriage.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2015-04-01 06:15:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Performance Task: Preparation for the Wedding and Its Traditions</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Here is&nbsp;the making and preparation of&nbsp;homemade items and objects&nbsp;used in a traditional Renaissance wedding,&nbsp;including their meaning and symbolism! </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1MvO6juTw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1MvO6juTw</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Handfasting</title>
         <author>ccusolito</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The binding of hands using ribbon, cloth, or cord unites the couple forever. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>William &amp;amp; Kate Handfasting Ritual </title>
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         <title>Marrying Into the Royal Family</title>
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         <title>Renaissance Wedding Feast</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Ornate wedding meals included meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, and desserts. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Exchanging of Vows and Handfasting Tradition</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Modern day marriages also incorporate the trading of vows; couples either exchange the traditional vows or write their own vows to make them personal. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Modern Day Renaissance Wedding  </title>
         <author>ccusolito</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Many couples choose the Renaissance wedding theme and traditions for their own weddings.&nbsp; As seen in this clip from the television series, <em>Gilmore Girls</em>, the wedding includes traditional Renaissance&nbsp;music, entertainment, and floral decorations, such as the flower head pieces. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Connection to Today </title>
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         <pubDate>2015-04-02 07:10:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Many aspects of a typical Renaissance wedding are popular during today's age.&nbsp; We see marriage ceremonies and receptions as extravagant events, while still incorporating valuable traditions, such as the modern day white bridal dress as a sign of purity.&nbsp; Along with the dress, flowers, flower&nbsp;wreath crows, handfasting, and the throwing of rice are&nbsp;widely used in modern day weddings.&nbsp; In some cases, couples decide to use&nbsp;a theme to&nbsp;tell a story or portray a message at their&nbsp;wedding.&nbsp; Renaissance themed wedding ceremonies&nbsp;are often used today, such as the ceremony in <em>Gilmore Girls </em>shown below.&nbsp; One major connection to today is the royal wedding that united Prince William and Kate Middleton as husband and wife on April 29, 2011.&nbsp; Kate Middleton wore a white dress and&nbsp;veil, similar to the way that a&nbsp;Renaissance woman wore a blue dress and blue&nbsp;veil.&nbsp; The wedding included many flowers and a large feast for the&nbsp;royal family to enjoy.&nbsp; In the video below, we see the exchanging of vows&nbsp;and the&nbsp;ritual of handfasting through the use of a gold and&nbsp;cardinal fabric.&nbsp; One major connection from the&nbsp;Renaissance weddings of the nobility and the royal couple is that Kate married into a very wealthy and upper class family, taking the name of the Princess, or Duchess of Cambridge.&nbsp; Through this marriage, Kate&nbsp;took the family name as her own. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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