Description: Wedding Mead, Mead Halls, Honey Moon Meads
There is an old tradition of serving Mead at a wedding, and afterwards.
In fact, this is reputedly where the term Honey Moon comes from. For a full cycle of the moon, after their marriage a couple would drink honey wine, before returning to the normalcy of life. That was a month of Mead. This mead was gifted to them by the wedding party, it was believed to not just provide them with a month of merriment but honey, and mead were also reputed to be bringers of virility and fertility. Of course if a bouncing young one made it on the scene nine months later, the mead was given cred
When a couple were to be married the bride's father would organise the local mead hall, he was paying for the wedding of course, this was tradition. Now stories as to the source of the mead to be served at the wedding vary and change from story teller to story teller and perhaps even mead hall to mead hall. One thing that is very clear in this retold history though, is that the weddings were held in a mead hall and served a special mead produced just for the occasion.