Let the wedding party be moderate; five male and five female friends, and a like number of kinsmen, will be enough.

The expense should not exceed, for the first class, a mina; and for the second, half a mina; and should be in like proportion for the other classes.

Extravagance is to be regarded as vulgarity and ignorance of nuptial proprieties.

Much wine is only to be drunk at the festivals of Dionysus, and certainly not on the occasion of a marriage.

The bride and bridegroom, who are taking a great step in life, ought to have all their wits about them; they should be especially careful of the night on which God may give them increase, and which this will be none can say.