Objecting at weddings.

That was what happened on the wedding night. The objection part is so that if there happens to be another husband or wife around; or say perhaps there is proof that one of the people is certifiably crazy and getting married there would be a time for people to be able to speak up and warn. There is also the fact that in Catholic marriages there can be impediments to that marriage which are not known to more than a few people and at that time; because they have not heard the bans of marriage announced the three Sundays before; they can now make it known to the Church what they know that would cause an impediment to the marriage. The impediment has to be something that goes against Canon law, it can't just be something like "I don't like them together" and therefore is generally known as a Canonical Impediment.

I also wonder what would happen if someone actually did object.

How would the person performing the service handle it?

Any clergy on SG care to respond?

oh man. I'm going to make my friends do that.

I'd probably ignore it and hope they went away. It's seems to work for most things.

it seems like your wedding will be fun to watch

Um.. I was trying out the google toolbar spellcheck feature. It bent me over.

[Edited on Jul 24, 2005 by GammaRat]

Heh.. my Dad did that at my sister's wedding. Glad the priest had a sense of humour, cause the whole church just cracked up. So much for solemn ceremony.

I have a friend that were he to marry his girlfriend I would defiantely object. He is a rampant cheater and she has no idea. I wish I could tell her now as he is putting her life in danger, but we're not that close and I know it would cause quite the uproar in our circle of friends. However, I would take every possible oportunity to object to the union before ruining a ceremony. It's stupid, selfish and rude to pretend to go along with a wedding until you burst out as an attention whore at the last minute during the ceremony.