The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)

by Ken Follett

The church did not have jurisdiction over marriage. If two people exchanged vows in front of witnesses, they were married. A priest might offer a blessing, but he was not essential.

Although a wedding was not a religious sacrament, the details of property transfers had to be written down and witnessed, and the people who could write were mostly clergy.

In dog philosophy it was always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.