Priscus Attalus gave the wedding speech, a classical epithalamium. It is an exposition of Psalm 44 as an epithalamium. The "Epithalamium" is perhaps the best known of her poems. An "epithalamium" for the occasion was composed by the sophist Julius Pollux. An exception was the epithalamium, a genre of poetry that celebrated a wedding. Harry Mathews wrote an Epithalamium for Judith Kazantzis and Irving Weinman.