Handfasting?

[EmptyTimCup]

"It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents."

so you get to 'use' the goods for a year and send her back home


sweet ...........

 

[VenusDoom]

This is what it says in my friend's wedding program:
Handfasting
The Cord is passed among the guests; as each holds it, he or she makes a wish for the couple. The bride and groom face each other as the minister begins “tying the knot” which shall endure as a sign of this marriage.