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 * Group Four – The Service: What type of wedding will this be? What are their beliefs?**


 * The Process and Resources**

Please read the specific task your group is assigned and use the resources as fully as possible to cover every angle. Remember, we are inviting a variety of guests from a changing time period so you must include as many details as possible to guarantee the success of this event. Your group has the most important task of all….scripting the wedding. In the play Friar Lawrence performs the wedding outside the prying eyes of Shakespeare’s readers. You are to research and design the entire service including the Friar’s words, Romeo’s and Juliet’s vows, the witnesses’ roles, and hymns sung during the service. Hint….you may want to check with group 3 about music. Weddings are sacred and the love Romeo and Juliet have for each other is indescribable. Their wedding should be formal, regal, romantic and most of all meaningful to everyone present. Remember – we want this relationship to last forever! Make sure it is all legal in the eyes of heaven and the law. Do your research. What were weddings like? What were the basic customs? Most weddings provide guests with a program. Your task is to provide a program for Romeo and Juliet’s wedding.

There is mention of Italian Renaissance wedding ceremonies at the end of [|Medieval and Renaissance Marriage:] Theory and Customs by Kirsti S. Thomas. Scroll all the way down to the end of the article just before the conclusion.

Another site discusses [|wedding traditions]. This site also has information on [|religion]. This site contains a typical wedding speech that a [|priest] might use.