http://www.bible.ca/marriage/ancient...-the-bible.htm
Quote:
There were three states of a marriage in the Bible:
Stage 1: signing the "ketubbah" contract (Creating the marriage bond)
i. The bride would chose her husband and her father would sign a legal contract with him called a "ketubbah".
ii. Once this is signed the couple is 100% married but do not have sex yet.
iii. Young children were often married, (arraigned marriage) but did not consummate until of age.
Stage 2: The "chuppah": sexual consummation.
i. Up to 7 years later, the groom is able to raise the money as set out in the ketubbah contract and notifies the father of the bride, who then sets a date to consummate the marriage at the bride's home.
ii. The bride waits with her maidens, for the arrival of the groom and his companions.
iii. The couple enters the chuppah room and consummates the marriage while the companions of the bride and groom wait and celebrate outside or in the next room.
iv. The groom hands the bloodied "proof of virginity cloth" to the witnesses chosen by the bride's parents, who then give it to the bride for safekeeping.
Stage 3: The wedding feast
i. After consummation, the entire wedding party walks to the house of the groom in a procession for a wedding feast.
ii. At the conclusion of the wedding feast, the couple has completed the ancient ritual of marriage.
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Stage 2 makes a nice little outline for a possible script.
Not sure how you get the married part because maidens by definition are not married but you could work around that part I would think. Instead of maidens they are the Bride's sisters, all of whom have married before her.
Then the Groom arrives and with him are all the husbands of the Bride's sisters.
The Bride and Groom go into the room together and there you have a nice little tender one on one scene. A very clean style love scene of the newly weds figuring each other out.
Swing to the room with the Sisters and husbands all getting a touch drunk and they are discussing what is going on in the next room. This leads naturally into a group sex scene.
Back and forth between the 2 scenes, Bride and Groom, Sisters with Husbands.
They all finish up together and when the Bride and Groom come out of the room there is no clue of the group sex scene any more.
Proceed to wedding feast
and close.
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