Marriage in the United Kingdom of Russia, Athens, Puerto Rico, and Snelly

Marriage in the United Kingdom of Russia, Athens, Puerto Rico, and Snelly is an ancient religious custom brought up by the belief in Athenaism which is the official state religion of the United Kingdom. As such the acts of marriage are protected within the framework of the Constitution stating that the Imperial Government holds no right to the Religious Legal System and as such protects all institutions of the Athenian Faith such as Marriage and grants full legality of a marriage. Within the United Kingdom marriage is protected by Religious Law and Athenian Religious Law as a fundamental right for the Family Unit.

History
Marriage if looked through the religious aspect has existed since St. Bishop married his wife the Mother Goddess Pallas Athena. The institution of Marriage has been performed by temples within the greater Athenian faith. The Imperial Government and all preceding forms of government never questioned the establishment of marriage as it is natural and non complex form of people moving from place to place. In the United Kingdom as such following and adhering to marriage a Matriarch must give permission to her daughter to marry the first of many husbands she may choose. Whilst Polygamy is now a days uncommon, it is still rather prevalent with older generations and especially in the Kingdoms of Puerto Rico and Athens which adhere to more traditionalist views. Polygamy is legal in all the United Kingdom only for Female Citizens although the vast majority of women now a days only marry at most two or three men.

Legal Structure
Marriage in the United Kingdom of Russia, Athens,Puerto Rico, and Snelly is guided and guarded by Religious Law and Athenian Religious Law in which the Imperial Government and Local Jurisdictions must adhere to said laws as true and foreseen as such legally binding within the United Kingdom and it's coverage. All marriages are conducted through the Temples of the Athenian Faith. Women are the only citizens allowed to marry and request a marriage in the Athenian Faith. A woman falls in love with a man and thus takes him to be her husband by asking a Priest or Priestess of a local Temple for permission to marry. The God's willing the couple is wed.


 * "To establish a legal father of a woman's children.
 * To establish a legal mother of a man's children.
 * To give the husband a monopoly in the wife's sexuality.
 * To give the wife a monopoly in the husband's sexuality.
 * To give the husband partial or monopolistic rights to the wife's domestic and other labor services.
 * To give the wife partial or monopolistic rights to the husband's domestic and other labor services.
 * To give the husband partial or total control over property belonging or potentially accruing to the wife.
 * To give the wife partial or total control over property belonging or potentially accruing to the husband.
 * To establish a joint fund of property – a partnership – for the benefit of the children of the marriage.
 * To establish a socially significant 'relationship of affinity' between the husband and his wife's brothers.
 * To establish a prosperous soceity.
 * To nourish and continue expansion of the population by reproducing.
 * To seek and establish a single woman as the new head of a household for future generations.
 * To join spouses families.

Process
Athenian Religious Law states that a Woman is the only person who is legally allowed to marry. In the United Kingdom only female citizens of the United Kingdom may marry. A woman may marry another woman or as many men as she may please. While Homosexuality is common and allowed, men are not allowed to marry of their own free will. Some women may decide that if she truly loves her husband that she may marry her husbands lover so that her husband may have his male lover live with the couple. Many women choose to marry more than one man. A woman will first meet a man in private normally from her own village, city, or building. A woman will court her future husband and meet her future husbands family. Traditionally a man will throw a large dinner for his family and his future wife to show her his interest in her. Women at this stage must show their interest and intention by attending the dinner. The women leaves the dinner and must leave her future husbands home for three days they do not seek contact, they may not see each other, families are prohibited by law or risk of death by religious law from communicating for or to the couple. Once the three days have passed, the woman will go to her Local Temple and ask the Priest or Priestess of the Temple for their interpretation of the God's will. If the God's will for the couple to be married, the Priest or Priestess will send a message for the Groom to meet his Bride inside the Temple. If the Bride decides that the God's do not will the couple to be wed, the Priest will send word to the groom that he has not been chosen to be the husband of the bride.

Marriage Ceremony
When the Priest or Priestess sends word for the Groom to be Wed in the Temple, the Priest or Priestess will cut the Brides clothing and she shall stand naked in the altar of the Gods where she will give an offering to the Gods. She will than be escorted to be bathed in oil, spices, and perfumes before being dressed in a wedding dress by Bridesmaids, the Nuns of the Temple. The groom will have been blindfolded by the Groomsman, normally the Monks of the Temple, who also cut the grooms clothes, bathe him in oil, spices, and fine perfumed dirt. He will then be dressed in fine linens and be kept blindfolded and left in the Tarbernacle of the Temple. When the ceremony is about to take place. The Groomsmen will take the groom and spin him a total of 44 times until he is dizzy or disoriented and forced to walk down the aisle of the Temple. The Bride will now be carried down to the Altar of the Temple on a seat carried by the Bridesmaids and the Priest or Priestess will give the couple their exchanging of Vows. The ceremony ends with the couple being tied together by a golden rope symbolising the eternal love which the Gods have now granted. The marriage is then finalised that night by the consumation of sexual intercourse.