Though European women going off to foreign lands as brides sometimes did so only after a marriage by proxy, which would give them better legal protections than a betrothal, even in the days when betrothals had some teeth in them.
I was wondering if An Author I'm Not Going To Name Because I Don't Have A Week To Waste had made up such marriages out of whole cloth, or was just doing her usual thing of avoiding noticing any possible rational reason for what she's swinging at right now....
The bride may escorted from her parents' home to her husband's -- or her in-laws' -- and thus be married.
Lots of possibilities.
Simplest one that I just thought up that I may have to use... cross-cultural confusion where voluntarily co-sleeping in someone else's "tent" (personal quarters) is marriage or adoption, possibly with someone refusing the (plotpoint item) that would mean they were just a guest instead of a new family member....
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I was wondering if An Author I'm Not Going To Name Because I Don't Have A Week To Waste had made up such marriages out of whole cloth, or was just doing her usual thing of avoiding noticing any possible rational reason for what she's swinging at right now....
The bride may escorted from her parents' home to her husband's -- or her in-laws' -- and thus be married.
Lots of possibilities.
Simplest one that I just thought up that I may have to use... cross-cultural confusion where voluntarily co-sleeping in someone else's "tent" (personal quarters) is marriage or adoption, possibly with someone refusing the (plotpoint item) that would mean they were just a guest instead of a new family member....