Dark Ages Wedding Rituals: What You Didn't Know! #dark #wedding #middleages

The kidnaping is true thats how my grandma and my mom got married like dam my grandpa and my dad are pure evil for that none the less i thank em because of them i exist is wrong yes but thats how i came

Wrong and Wrong

The bride price actually has happened since the beginning of recorded marriages and is common in nearly every culture.
You pay a dowery to the brides family for multiple reasons but its nothing to do with property. In most cases it is because women hold more value to a household because they are the birth giver and childrearer. They are able to reproduce, strengthening the family's reach, which is why virigins were of more value, because bastards typically challange household claims to land. You are essentially paying compensation for the family's inconveniences. When you are poor, its more of a business arrangement which only becomes property-like when women are against the idea. You pay in order to have someone raise your children and in return, the parents of your wife have their retirement paid for.
This still happens today however we also see the brides family paying for the wedding, which is traditionally a thankyou and an acknowledgement that they are benefiting from this contract.

Marriages since tribal times in many culutres have allowed the head of the tribe to procreate with women at any time in order to ensure strong royal liniage. It is benificial for strong leaders to procreate as much as possible because in those times, you became a leader through strength. This means disease and poor Hereditary traits were less common. The same thing actually happens across the animal kingdom and it wasn't until conquers started commanding large armies that this became more uncommon. As soon as leadership became a more scholarly endeavour, you see the higher rulers creating laws requiring the inbreeding with direct relatives. Lords were still encouraged to procrete because it kept them strong enough to keep order. This is why royal bloodlines are massively imbred and hugely protective of who they marry. When they did marry outside the royal, until quite recently, it was legally required for them to marry a lord or lady. This provides enough vairation to reduce inbreeding side effects whilst strengthening royal bloodlines.

Just Primae Noctis? Not a law that actually existed. Try a bit harder.

A bride price is just the same as a dowry and it started way before medieval times, they just took it a little more serious then

Now in 21st Century some cultures still have some of those as a tradition. Like in some Countries a young single woman kidnapping. In Russia i know they on a wedding day bride's family or girl friends collect sum of money from groom to proceed to get to her to pick up her from where she is awaits for him and kidnapping of the bride on a wedding day after they usually already tide the knot.

What!?