Originally Posted by
TransWorld
When my parents got married, they were 25. My dad was back from WWII, and in college.
They got married on a Saturday afternoon. After the reception, the best man took them to the bus station. They travelled from Kansas City, Kansas to Excelsior Springs, Mo. which was 40 miles away. They carried their luggage a few blocks to the Elms Hotel for their Honeymoon.
By the time they changed, and went downstairs for supper, the dining room was closed. They walked a few blocks away to the drug store that had a “lunch counter” and had BLT sandwiches.
They went back to the hotel for their wedding night. At 5 am Sunday they were awakened by jackhammers working in front of the hotel.
Early Monday they carried their luggage to the bus station, to ride back home. Got there in time for my dad to hitchhike to college for his late morning class.
Yes, a lot of people have had it hard.
10,000 years ago, my ancestors got married by clubbing some dude in a rival tribe and taking his wife in between hunting for mammoths and dying from malnutrition. A lot of people have had it hard.
The context of the time period matters, and in
any other professional job these days it would be expected that the company would get you your wedding/reasonable honeymoon off if you told them about it during the interview.