It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.
Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
Vocabulary Help
- after – depois
- beer – cerveja
- bride – noiva
- father – pai
- honey – mel
- honeymoon – lua de mel
- mead – cerveja feita a partir do mel
- son-in-law – genro
- wedding – casamento