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Comment by Melissa Perez on September 15, 2014 at 10:30am
How will you choose your best man? Bride kidnapping has been a thing since the founding of Rome, when Romulus threw a giant party, invited the people of Sabine to a party, and then stole all their women. English brides could expect to be ki...dnapped until the Marriage Act was passed in 1753, and mock-kidnappings are still a wedding tradition in parts of Eastern Europe. The groomsman who proved to be the most skilled kidnapper became the “best man”; which is fair enough - You wouldn’t want the worst man beside you on your big day.
 
In Anglo-Saxon England, the best man accompanied the groom up the aisle to help him defend the bride. This all started to change after the married women’s property acts in the 1880s, and it’s where we get the tradition of the father walking the bride up the aisle.

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