In view of the unchecked expansion of wedding banquets—exceeding all reasonable limits, multiplying both before and after the marriage—and the resulting inability of many people to bear the costs of marriage, the Council deems it necessary to deal with this situation decisively and with determination in the following ways:

First: The Council rules that the recently introduced singing at wedding celebrations, together with its accompanying musical instruments, the hiring of male and female singers, and the amplification of sound, is to be prohibited. All of this is a forbidden abomination and must therefore be stopped, and those who engage in it must be punished.

Second: The mixing of men and women at wedding functions and similar gatherings is to be prevented, and the groom is not to enter upon his bride in the company of unveiled women. Anyone found facilitating such an offence—whether the groom himself or the bride’s guardians—is to be punished with a penalty severe enough to deter this wrongdoing.

Third: Extravagance and excess in wedding banquets must be curbed, and the public is to be warned against such behavior.