Weddings during Elizabethan Times had many laws and customs surrounding them and a wedding service that is quite different from what occurs in modern day. Betrothals were the first step in a marriage: “At a betrothal, the two people join hands. He gives her a ring to be worn on the right hand. It changes to the left at the wedding.” (Ros1). A betrothal was like a contract for the bride and groom; however, a betrothal could be canceled by consent of both parties, so long as the marriage was not consummated (Elizabethan Marriages and Weddings). The second step was announcing the marriage at three church sessions or holy days in ‘Crying the Banns’ (Ros2). In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, because Romeo and Juliet got married so suddenly and
