The bride and groom have to have a super thorough bath — separately, don't get excited — then she's dressed with a sort of flower-crown and the guy has to wear an ancestral sword. A goat gets sacrificed and a bunch of twigs are dipped in its blood, then sprinkled on the couple to confer the blessings of the gods in what I personally think is the grossest way possible, and the groom gives her his sword for their future sons to have handed down to them. Arm-rings are exchanged, or finger-rings if you want something smaller, a bunch of vows are spoken, and hands are tied loosely together.
Then there's a lot of nonsense about escorting her safely over the threshold for the gods to witness the transition into their new life as a couple, putting a ceremonial hammer in her lap so Thor blesses her, a feast for a week ... all that stuff. Oh, and a bunch of witnesses watch them have sex, to make sure the whole deal's been sealed, so to speak.
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The bride and groom have to have a super thorough bath — separately, don't get excited — then she's dressed with a sort of flower-crown and the guy has to wear an ancestral sword. A goat gets sacrificed and a bunch of twigs are dipped in its blood, then sprinkled on the couple to confer the blessings of the gods in what I personally think is the grossest way possible, and the groom gives her his sword for their future sons to have handed down to them. Arm-rings are exchanged, or finger-rings if you want something smaller, a bunch of vows are spoken, and hands are tied loosely together.
Then there's a lot of nonsense about escorting her safely over the threshold for the gods to witness the transition into their new life as a couple, putting a ceremonial hammer in her lap so Thor blesses her, a feast for a week ... all that stuff. Oh, and a bunch of witnesses watch them have sex, to make sure the whole deal's been sealed, so to speak.
Vegas sounds more my style, to be honest.