This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Unknown Troper: the Jane Eyre example appeared twice. It needed removal.
Helgatwb: I’m not sure about the laws in the UK, but in the USA, at least, the marriage isn’t official until the certificate is signed (which usually happens after the ceremony), so missing this moment doesn’t mean much. It’s just more symbolic if you don’t.
Lawyerdude: It occurred to me that this may be a subtrope of the "Standard Wedding Ceremony". You know how every wedding in TV and movies seemed to being with the minister saying, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today..." and seems to follow the same script. I've been to a bunch of weddings, and NONE of them have begun this way. Does anybody know where that script comes from?
Clerval: I took out this Justifying Edit on the Four Weddings And A Funeral example:
- Not really: the objecting is done by the groom's deaf brother, who has to do his objecting in sign language, with the groom translating for him, and thereby talking himself out of his own wedding.
Because the fact that the objector is deaf and needs translation doesn't really change the fact that he's following the trope to the letter.
Second Silk: I think in most places if anyone does object, then the wedding can't go ahead at all that day. It was in the paper that a couple were getting married in Austria and a friend of theirs objected as a joke. They had to come back the following week. Also, the most recent wedding I was at (traditional Anglican service) did start with "dearly beloved, we are gather here today in the sight of God and before this congregation". Oh, further to the wrestling the Best Man, the Best Man used to have to marry the bride if the Groom didn't show up, or something like that. It's his job to make the sure that Groom doesn't chicken out.
Count Dorku: Wait, this is about weddings, even though you can get here from "I Object"? Does objecting in court really constitute a Courtroom Antic?
