| A | B |
|---|
| conferratio | patrician to patrician wedding |
| coemptio | plebian wedding; "the fictious sale of a bride" |
| usus | common law marriage between poor |
| tunica recta | yellow wedding dress |
| flammeum | orange bridal veil |
| pronuba | bride's maid |
| hasta | spears--7 little ones were used to divide bride's hair |
| camillus | ring bearer |
| nuces | nuts--thrown at couple to ensure fertility |
| Talassio | traditional wedding cheer |
| mustaceum | wedding cake |
| libetinarius | undertaker |
| columbarium | had niches to put urns of ashes |
| conclamatio | practice of calling out the name of the dead person just after they had died |
| cenotaphum | an empty tomb--used when body was missing, etc. |
