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Many people who were wealthy, and some who were not, had arranged marriages. In some cases, members of medieval royal families who married barely knew each other. If people were unhappy with arranged marriages, the Church could, and often did, annul the marriage.

Most people were peasants, and since peasants did not have much in the way of money, there was really no reason to have an arranged marriage, so they met, fell in love, and married. We do not have a lot of information about serf weddings before the 12th century. The information we have for the time after that is that they married privately, were not required to have church weddings, or even witnesses. They often registered their marriages with the church, though it was not required. The information we have indicates they married rather late, averaging about age 25.

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