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Traditions concerning the service

The tradition of the seating arrangement in the church goes back to days of old when the father would offer their daughter to another tribe as a peace offering so uniting them. The tribes where kept separate just in case one tribe member did not entirely agree and would try to kill one of the other tribe member.

The father giving her daughter away goes back to the days when a daughter was considered the property of the father and when she married he was handing over the ownership to the husband.

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The Kiss is a way of showing you are excepting the contract of marriage rather than using a signature, in olden times prior to hand shake and a written contract a kiss (usually on the cheek) was a sign of bonding a excepting of the contract.
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