There wass a ‘bundling board placed between the bundelers, IIRC.
Based on tthe 25% bastardy rate, that board sometimes had a knothole in it.
Bundling was practiced differently, sometimes with a board, sometimes without. Without the pernicious expectation of constant romantic infatuation, marriage was often arranged by the family, and one way for the family to get a prospective groom to agree to take a problem daughter off their hands was to give him an opportunity to ‘tickle the dragon’.
The sad stories of Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston reveal the vast divide between our marital expectations.