“If you are wise, build a house and found a hearth”.

That’s what Ptahhotep recommended, who was visir of the V dynasty, and this seems to be the ancient Egyptians’ greatest desire.
The freedom that the young ones had, allowed them to know each other and find their mate without the family’s intervention.
This freedom never caused depravation and the feeling of love and their rituals seemed to draw from their perfection. The wedding ceremonies must not have had a great importance, since we don’t have no account about them, moreover we don’t know if the wedding union was consecrated by a religious celebration or by an official event. It’s only known that the bride was given to the husband with a more or less large dowry and that the husband offered gifts before the wedding.
For the Egyptians it was a dishonor to not have children and it was considered egoistical.
In the low epoch a kind of contract was drawn to legalize the marriage, but nothing proves that this wasn’t done also in the previous epoch.
Polygamy practically didn’t exist.
Actually the kings had a harem, sometimes with hundreds of women, who were a near king’s daughters or daughters of noble Egyptians, but they had only one great royal bride or, rarely two.
Considering the common citizens, the cases of bigamy were very few, nevertheless it wasn’t so rare that men had, besides a wife, one or more concubines, who had no legal rights, as they had no legal rights, if there were any, the children generated.
Anyway, normally the middle-class Egyptian had only one woman and the texts present him as an affectionate and faithful husband.