Wedd is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “to gamble,” and there is no greater gamble than marriage.
In the days when brides were bartered by their fathers, a deal was reached with a prospective groom through an exchange of either property or cash.
A young woman would have been bought and sold for breeding purposes to be finalized in a wedlock ritual called a wedding.
This marriage led to matrimony, which in Latin means “the state of motherhood.”
