Until fairly recently Ireland used to have a festival called Skellig Night, Skelliking Day, or Skeleton Night, on the eve of lent, where boys had free licence to lasso girls, tie them up, and pour water on them in a grim sort of pre lent carnival. Weddings were forbidden - Ash Wednesday to Low Sunday (the days that bookmark lent) but the parish priest of the Skelligs (a series of rocky islets) would perform the ceremony on The Great Skellig on Shrove Tuesday. If you wanted to get married during lent, that’s where you went.