{"id":23070,"date":"2016-09-26T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/My-understanding-is-that-weddings-by-declaration-that-is-couples-exchanging-vows-in-front-of-witnesses-without"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:55:07","slug":"my-understanding-is-that-weddings-by-declaration-that-is-couples-exchanging-vows-in-front-of-witnesses-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/09\/26\/my-understanding-is-that-weddings-by-declaration-that-is-couples-exchanging-vows-in-front-of-witnesses-without\/","title":{"rendered":"My understanding is that weddings &#8220;by declaration&#8221; &#8211; that is, couples exchanging vows in front of witnesses, without&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>My understanding is that weddings &#8220;by declaration&#8221; &#8211; that is, couples exchanging vows in front of witnesses, without the need for a priest &#8211; were also legal in much of Europe in the Middle Ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marriage customs are an interesting area to play with in your fiction. In my Gryphon Clerks novels, the requirements are two witnesses who have taken adulthood rites, a &#8220;person of standing&#8221; to conduct the ceremony, and filling in a simple form.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/for-200-years-secret-anvil-weddings-were-performed-by-blacksmiths-in-the-uk\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/for-200-years-secret-anvil-weddings-were-performed-by-blacksmiths-in-the-uk<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        My understanding is that weddings &#8220;by declaration&#8221; &#8211; that is, couples exchanging vows in front of witnesses, without&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/09\/26\/my-understanding-is-that-weddings-by-declaration-that-is-couples-exchanging-vows-in-front-of-witnesses-without\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}