The article deals with marriages in medieval Croatian and Slovenian towns in Istria, Trieste, and continental towns in the territory of today's Slovenia. The author tries to answer questions about what marriages were like in the Middle Ages, how and by whom they were arranged, when girls had to marry, when they were allowed to marry, what the life of married women was like, what (if any) were the material goods they were allowed to have, and what happened to dowries and to the presents received from husbands on the morning after the wedding day.