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Hand Fasting
Hand fasting is a Celtic wedding ceremony from the middle ages.
It was a temporary marriage that lasted for a year and a day.
Unlike the English that had a friar in most villages, most in
Scotland did not a have local minister or priest to perform a
marriage ceremony, so, couples would perform a hand fasting which
legally bound them until someone of the clergy would pass through
the village and could perform a ceremony. In a modern ceremony,
a hand fasting is incorporated into many wedding ceremonies in
a way to honor their Celtic heritage. The couples hands are bound
together in a cord or a tartan cloth during their vows. This is
to show that from that point forward, they are no longer two,
but are one!
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