> > Rev. Fred Agnir (my pastor) did all the good introductory stuff, and, when my mother realized we had carefully planned to take out the "does anyone object" line...
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> Not to give your mother's stupid claims credibility, but wasn't she partly right? I thought you had to have that line. Maybe you only have to have the banns, though....they'd have to ignore claims on the grounds of "I don't want this to happen"...

I'm not sure that you *have* to have *any* of the traditional lines or format in a wedding ceremony except for having witnesses, asking the couple if they want to get married, and announcing that they are married. That's what I understood to be the legal requirement for the ceremony, so long as it's being performed by somebody who is a legal marriage celebrant. Anything apart from that is up to the couple and can use their personal choice of wording or that which their religion dictates. I think banns are another thing that's only required by some religions or denominations, not by law.

I don't know anything about this though, so if I'm wrong somebody say so.