How Old is She and What is Her bride price?

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	How Old is She and What is Her bride price?

amybennett

4-1-2008 2:31 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/babe4f48-b656-49da-9929-36de8a17412a/CF3ABA08-5C11-4C11-B3EA-D4483529E8F8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.weddings.sc/blog/2008/01/18/are-you-old-enough-to-wed/" href="http://www.weddings.sc/blog/2008/01/18/are-you-old-enough-to-wed/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.weddings.sc</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weddings.sc/blog/2008/01/18/are-you-old-enough-to-wed/"><B> The average age for a bride in South Carolina is 27.  And the average age for a Groom is 29.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weddings.sc/blog/2008/01/18/are-you-old-enough-to-wed/"><DIV>
But this wasn’t always the case.   Roman woman married between 12 and 14.  Most Roman grooms where two or three times their brides age.  Before you get all up in arms about how young Roman brides where consider this,  women can legally marry in the state of South Carolina at 14 and men at 16.     Legally, a lest, nothing much has changed since Ancient Rome.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weddings.sc/blog/2008/01/18/are-you-old-enough-to-wed/"><DIV>
Perhaps that is not all that has carried over. What is an engagement ring, but a evolution of the dowry?  You can romanticize the engagement ring all you want, but a groom spends an average of 2 months of his salary to “buy” the right to marry his bride.  Think about it.  Most self respecting women would not accept an engagement ring from the 25 cent machine.  A groom has to spend lots of time and money choosing a ring that is “worthy” of his bride to be.     I’m not trying to take the romance out of weddings.  It’s just a few thoughts that popped into my head.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CF3ABA08-5C11-4C11-B3EA-D4483529E8F8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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