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Chloe Bell February 2000 Compare and contrast Roman weddings with weddings today In some ways Roman weddings were the same as weddings today, but there were some differences. For example, in Roman times a boy could marry from the age of fourteen onwards and girls could marry when they were twelve years old. Whereas today, both boys and girls can get married at sixteen with parental consent or at eighteen, not needing the consent of parents. The general age today though is that woman get married in their mid-twenties and men in their late twenties. This is generally due to controlled childbirth methods and further education. Many Roman marriages were arranged by the parents of the couple, but occasionally it was love at first sight. When the marriages were arranged the parents of the girl would make sure the boy had a healthy complexion, money, that he was hard-working, had good looks and was...

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