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  1. While visiting relatives may seem strange in today’s custom of expensive exotic honeymoons, sometimes it resulted in lifelong memories. Fifty years ago, my husband’s best friend took his bride to meet a distant relative, Norman Rockwell, and it was an incredibly special visit they couldn’t stop talking about. My own parents married in 1934 with little money and spent part of their honeymoon in great splendor as guests of his godfather, the Bishop of Bath and Wells., at the 800-year-old Bishop’s palace in Wells. Check out the pictures by Googling “Bishop’s Palace, Wells”; it looks like somewhere you could come upon Mr Darcy unawares.

  2. “As a married woman, she does rank higher than an unmarried one, but her new bride status lends her a special, temporary, elevation in social rank.”

    This sentence made me think of Lydia and the main reason she wanted to marry first. She wanted precedence over her sisters. When they went to dinner, Lydia was quick to tell Jane that she was now lower because Lydia was a married woman. Help us all. That poor child has no idea what she has done.

    Thanks for these snippets. I hope you have recovered from all the harsh weather. Stay safe and healthy.

  3. Interesting. I have been called “Miss Sheila” in my work as a caseworker. So even in modern days the terms have use not indicating a married or unmarried status. Thanks for sharing here.

  4. its not just the honeymoon that has changed, but almost all the celebratory special stuff because you are a bride has also shifted into a prewedding schedule crammed full of travel and socialising, on top of the wedding planning and while trying not to use up your vacation days from work (if you have any) making such travel and socialising that much less relaxing as you skip your lunch hours to leave early, or stress to get home no matter how late on Sunday in order to be able to get into work on Monday. It probably contributes to the modern stereotype of ‘bridezilla’ by both over emphasising the engagement phase and multiplying the stress.

    Nicer, really, to incorporate some of that travel into the honeymoon, and some of those parties into the first weeks or months of marriage.

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