The handfasting might just as well not have taken place.

"If you are here to break off your handfasting, by all means, do so.

Or at least, it hadn't done more than get them to the handfasting.

"It is unseemly to ask me this at our handfasting!"

She said, "Now, that is the right way to go to your handfasting, with a smile!

"And this handfasting is for your protection too, Shana," he continued.

There usually aren't when there's no handfasting, unless the woman is wealthy in her own right and wants a child.

"I had forgotten how seriously you took that handfasting.

Handfasting is a wedding ritual in which the bride's and groom's hands are tied together.

"But the handfasting is the true binding," Beltran said.

But this "handfasting" was going to be in name only, no matter what Valyn thought.

"If the Lady Wynn does not agree to the handfasting today, then by tomorrow night we will all probably be dead."

You know what happened at my handfasting."

The handfasting will be held at Festival Night.

The State handfasting would save bloodshed, would spare lives.

By custom, blood-kin should be present at a handfasting."

"If you make it to your handfasting."

"Come, Carlina, my pet, you must not be late to your own handfasting!"

Let the handfasting be held on Festival Night."

The next dance after a handfasting was always, by tradition, a dance for married or pledged couples.

She stood obediently enough for the handfasting.

At the handfasting, Darren judges her to be much older than he has been told, and attempt to force her into sexual relations.

Handfasting is the symbolic act of a couple's hands being tied together, often with cords or ribbons, representing their union.

Come home, so I can celebrate your handfasting to that handsome young man who loves you so."

"It is traditional, but the handfasting is complete, my lord," Wynn said, trying to pull away.