DATING CUSTOMS

DATING CUSTOMS

• They had to ask the man of the house to court their daughter.
• They had to have a chaperone watching them.
• The couple could not touch hands
• After a couple months, they were ENGAGED!!😘😍❤️

DATING REGULATIONS

• Only on Saturday night, the boy could go over to the girls house and court.
• They couldn't go to separate room and talk.
• Everyone in the house could hear what they were talking about.

PURITAN POLICY

• Marriage was not religious, it was a civil contract.
• Before the "marriage", the towns people could voice any objections.
• The couple had a quiet and simple wedding/dinner
• The parents allowed the couple to use a courting stick( a tube that the couple could whisper through while the parents were in the other room.)

TRADITIONS!

• The couple could sleep in the same bed as long as they had a bundling board between them. That is called bundling.
• Apparently, after the couple got married, they got a marriage license just like today's customs.

POWER POINT BY:

• Araceli Miller
• Alexsia Guerra
• Marlen Valencia-Felix
• Jordan Baker
• Zuleth Gomez