Betrothal: A formal engagement to be married.
Girls married at 12 boys were allowed to marry at 14 years of age
Women had little if any choice on who they married
Weddings usually happen so that both families benifet
A boy from another family asks a daughters father for her hand in marrige
who ever payed the highest price would get a fathers daughter as a bride
a wedding wring is a important symbol in marrige because it showed that the daughter was marrying someone wealthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPF6crPwrx0: YouTube video
Swisher, Clarice. Elizabethan England: Primary Sources. Farmington Hills, MI, Lucent Books/Thomson/Gale, 2003.