Originally Posted by DarkSideMoon

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.