Thanks to a change in the law that allowed buildings other than register offices to act as wedding venues in Hertfordshire or any other UK county,some happy couples can now be married in some fantastic properties.
Imagine walking down the aisle of a wonderful Tudor building, complete with its black timber beams and herringbone brickwork. It doesn't take a very fertile mind to imagine ladies and gentlemen of the era strolling around the room where the bride and groom are taking their vows.
The Tudor architectural period spans the reign of the Tudor kings and queens, from 1405-1603, with the latter period, the reign of Elizabeth I, being known as the Elizabethan period.
A new invention had quite an impact on the way these properties were built – the chimney stack. It meant that buildings could be constructed with fireplaces upstairs and that meant that the second storey could run the whole length of the building.
Prior to this, during the medieval period, large fireplaces would only be built in grand halls with open hearths in an attempt to spread the heat.
To show off their wealth, those who could afford to build their own homes would have truly elaborate chimney pieces constructed to signal to those passing that they were a moneyed family.
Defensive architecture, such as moats, soon disappeared and the larger Tudor houses adopted a more aesthetic theme and were built to incorporate quadrangles in an E or H shape.
Take a closer look at the Elizabethan Essex wedding venue you are privileged enough to be standing in, and the chances are you might be looking out on to one of these very quadrangles.
While the architecture might be beautiful, you wouldn't have wanted to have lived in this period. The average life expectancy was 35 years old, so no wonder people married young. Really young. Many girls would have married at the age of 14.
In poorer households there would have been in indecent rush to marry off daughters once they reached the age of 14 as it was seen that any later and they would not be such an attractive catch. The fear was that the family would be continually stuck with another mouth to feed.
It's fair to say that these young brides are unlikely to have had the choices of wedding venues in Essex or other county for that matter. Thank goodness for the bride and groom you are currently toasting that they are marrying this century.
And while you wish them every success and hope their marriage is a long and happy one, spare a thought for the Tudor bride. She became her husband's property upon marriage, as did any of the assets and wealth she was entitled to.
Wife beating was a common occurrence and was seen as the wife's fault – she couldn't have been a good wife if she ‘provoked' her husband into beating her. And horror of horrors, if she was the wife of a lord, or some other peer, and committed adultery she could be burned at the stake!
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Imagine walking down the aisle of a wonderful Tudor building, complete with its black timber beams and herringbone brickwork. It doesn't take a very fertile mind to imagine ladies and gentlemen of the era strolling around the room where the bride and groom are taking their vows.
The Tudor architectural period spans the reign of the Tudor kings and queens, from 1405-1603, with the latter period, the reign of Elizabeth I, being known as the Elizabethan period.
A new invention had quite an impact on the way these properties were built – the chimney stack. It meant that buildings could be constructed with fireplaces upstairs and that meant that the second storey could run the whole length of the building.
Prior to this, during the medieval period, large fireplaces would only be built in grand halls with open hearths in an attempt to spread the heat.
To show off their wealth, those who could afford to build their own homes would have truly elaborate chimney pieces constructed to signal to those passing that they were a moneyed family.
Defensive architecture, such as moats, soon disappeared and the larger Tudor houses adopted a more aesthetic theme and were built to incorporate quadrangles in an E or H shape.
Take a closer look at the Elizabethan Essex wedding venue you are privileged enough to be standing in, and the chances are you might be looking out on to one of these very quadrangles.
While the architecture might be beautiful, you wouldn't have wanted to have lived in this period. The average life expectancy was 35 years old, so no wonder people married young. Really young. Many girls would have married at the age of 14.
In poorer households there would have been in indecent rush to marry off daughters once they reached the age of 14 as it was seen that any later and they would not be such an attractive catch. The fear was that the family would be continually stuck with another mouth to feed.
It's fair to say that these young brides are unlikely to have had the choices of wedding venues in Essex or other county for that matter. Thank goodness for the bride and groom you are currently toasting that they are marrying this century.
And while you wish them every success and hope their marriage is a long and happy one, spare a thought for the Tudor bride. She became her husband's property upon marriage, as did any of the assets and wealth she was entitled to.
Wife beating was a common occurrence and was seen as the wife's fault – she couldn't have been a good wife if she ‘provoked' her husband into beating her. And horror of horrors, if she was the wife of a lord, or some other peer, and committed adultery she could be burned at the stake!
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