Can someone explain this phrase to me (see details)?

Question

The following is part of a traditional wedding vow:

"to be bonny and buxom at bed and at board"

I'd rather not keep guessing at what that means. Help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Originally these words meant something rather different from now. "Bonny" is from the French ‘bon’, or ‘good’; "buxom" is from an old German word meaning ‘pliant’ or ‘obedient’; "board" is where you put food (on the ‘sideboard’) so this means mealtimes; and "bed" simply meant ‘night-time’. So "Be bonny and buxom in bed and at board" meant: "Behave properly and obediently through night and day." The meanings of these words changed over the years and the church objected to talking about bonny and buxom brides in bed, so we have now lost this vow.

Answer 2

Behave properly and obediently through night and day

Answer 3

i think it's intended to be said by the woman to her husband, say in 19th century??

it means to be pleasant and pleasing all around..