ball and chain
by marty
Posted to Utterances on 2001-08-05 07:56:00
Parent message is 1872
i always heard that asking the question goes back hundreds of years. they used to do the ceremony in front of the whole village and they asked the question to make sure that the woman wasn’t already married. i don’t know why people wouldn’t already know or why a woman would try to get married again, but that’s just what i’ve heard.