 These laws were badly received; they were modified in AD 9 by the "Lex Papia Poppaea"; eventually they were nearly all repealed or fell into disuse under Constantine and later emperors, including Justinian.A "confarreatio" wedding ceremony was a rare event, reserved for the highest echelons of Rome's elite.The Flamen Dialis and Pontifex Maximus presided, with ten witnesses present, and the bride and bridegroom shared a cake of spelt (in Latin "far" or "panis farreus"), hence the rite's name.