wedding marriage happiness at Dunmow Flitch Trials Essex folk ceremony and ancient custom

Is it more than a year since your wedding? If you are happily married and are brave enough to have your marriage examined in public, then the Dunmow Flitch Trials may award you for living in married bliss !

marriage wedding The trial requires a married couple to stand before a mock court, and prove that they have, for a year and a day, 'not wished themselves unwed' If they are able to do so, to the satisfaction of the judge and jury of six maidens and six bachelors, then they are awarded half a pig, known as a 'flitch' of bacon.

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