[1] The ceremony involved the bride and bridegroom sharing a cake of emmer, in Latin far or panis farreus,[2][3] hence the rite's name.
[4] The Flamen Dialis and pontifex maximus presided over the wedding, and ten witnesses had to be present.
[3] The woman passed directly from the hand (manus) of her father or head of household (the pater familias) to that of her new husband.
Not much is known about how diffarreatio was carried out except that there was a special type of sacrifice that caused the dissolution of the relationship between the man and woman.
Originally, the confarreatio was indissoluble, and this remained true of the marriage of the Flamen Dialis.