Who paid for the wedding?

[visionary]

In Yeshua's time, who paid for weddings, the bride's family or the groom's family?

[A_Pioneer]

In Yeshua's time, who paid for weddings, the bride's family or the groom's family?
I haven't a clue. Also, I've not found how one gets married from the pages of the Tanach.
So I am clueless there also.

The wedding feast that Yeshua speaks of I have done some study of and this would inply that the father of the groom provides everything for the wedding feast.
From what I have gleaned the brides family uses the dowery money to bedeck the bride.

Is this in keeping with what you have found?

Shalom

[visionary]

Haven't found anything, that is why I asked. In order for the parable to work, The Father of the Groom pays for the wedding. Just wanted confirmation that that was the way it was in real life of those days. I do know that it is correct that the House that the Bride and Groom are going to live in must be built first before the wedding... which fits.

[Henaynei]

the only "marriage/wedding" in scripture, when "the two become one" is when there is physical "comsummation"



Ge 2:24 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=ge+2:24&version=cjb&st=1&sd=1&new=1&showtools=1) - Show Context (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+2:24&version=cjb&context=1&showtools=1) This is why a man is to leave his father and mother and stick with his wife, and they are to be one flesh.

Mt 19:5 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=mt+19:5&version=cjb&st=1&sd=1&new=1&showtools=1) - Show Context (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=mt+19:5&version=cjb&context=1&showtools=1) and that he said, `For this reason a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two are to become one flesh'?

Mr 10:8 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=mr+10:8&version=cjb&st=1&sd=1&new=1&showtools=1) - Show Context (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=mr+10:8&version=cjb&context=1&showtools=1) and the two are to become one flesh. Thus they are no longer two, but one.

1Co 6:16 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=1co+6:16&version=cjb&st=1&sd=1&new=1&showtools=1) - Show Context (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=1co+6:16&version=cjb&context=1&showtools=1) Don't you know that a man who joins himself to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? For the Tanakh says, "The two will become one flesh";

Eph 5:31 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=eph+5:31&version=cjb&st=1&sd=1&new=1&showtools=1) - Show Context (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=eph+5:31&version=cjb&context=1&showtools=1) "Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and remain with his wife, and the two will become one."

[judahsgem]

I kept thinking there was more description with the weddings of Leah & with Rachel...am I wrong? I will have to read it again.