The wedding provides closure for the narrative structure as well as for the love story: the mysteriously provided pleasures Psyche enjoyed in the "domus" of Cupid at the beginning of her odyssey, when she entered into a false marriage preceded by funeral rites, are reimagined in the hall of the gods following correct ritual procedure for a real marriage. The arranging of the gods in their proper order "(in ordinem)" would evoke for the Roman audience the religious ceremony of the "lectisternium", a public banquet held for the major deities in the form of statues arranged on luxurious couches, as if they were present and participating in the meal.