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* ''Fanfic/ReunionGGo'', a ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fanfic, has an interesting variation. Ten years after high school and six years after Ron disappeared from Kim's life, Kim is about to marry a guy named Ray Beam, who is secretly a villain trying to destroy both Kim and Ron. When Ron, now a costumed ninja hero named Ronin, returns to Kim's life, Beam frames him for his attacks on Kim. At the wedding ceremony, when the priest says those magic words, Wade (who had secretly been working as Ron's backup after the break-up of Team Possible) interrupts the ceremony. The fact that Wade, who was notoriously agoraphobic and seldom left his family's house, attends the ceremony to challenge Beam causes the priest to take him seriously.

* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': In Danny and Kim, when [[spoiler:the line is mentioned during Danny and Kim's wedding, Vlad objects... "To both of them living!"]]

* ''Fanfic/{{Reunion}}'', a ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fanfic, has an interesting variation. Ten years after high school and six years after Ron disappeared from Kim's life, Kim is about to marry a guy named Ray Beam, who is secretly a villain trying to destroy both Kim and Ron. When Ron, now a costumed ninja hero named Ronin, returns to Kim's life, Beam frames him for his attacks on Kim. At the wedding ceremony, when the priest says those magic words, Wade (who had secretly been working as Ron's backup after the break-up of Team Possible) interrupts the ceremony. The fact that Wade, who was notoriously agoraphobic and seldom left his family's house, attends the ceremony to challenge Beam causes the priest to take him seriously.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_t9mqUJpAc this]] "Liberty Mutual" commercial, Doug is officiating a wedding for [=LiMu=] Emu, and when he gets to this part, an emu named Kevin squawks, to everyone's dismay.

* The Shirelles' "Foolish Little Girl" is about how a fickle young woman is pleading that she still loves the groom in question and her friends are telling her to keep her mouth shut, since she didn't want him before and not to wreck a wedding between two people that love each other.

* In ''The Guru'', not one but two men interrupt Sharonna and Rusty's wedding: Ramu has come for the bride, and Randy has come for the groom.

* Subverted in ''Mambo Italiano'': Gay protagonist Angelo's boyfriend Nino is in the closet, which had put a strain on the relationship ''before'' Nino was browbeaten into marrying a woman. As the wedding begins, we see Angelo make up his mind and purposefully get in his car. Then, at the "forever hold your peace" bit, the church door bangs open. But it's just a late arrival ("Scusate! Scusate!"). Angelo, on the other hand, has gone off to [[TakeAThirdOption hook up with the nice guy from his volunteer job]].
* Subverted in ''The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life Of Ethan Green'', in which the gay title character tries to stop the wedding/commitment ceremony of his ex-boyfriend and the ex-boyfriend's new, villainous [[GayConservative "Log Cabin Republican"]] partner. [[spoiler:The big, climactic "running in to interrupt the wedding" scene actually doesn't pay off, but Ethan and his ex do end up getting back together eventually]].

* In ''Film/Norbit'', the ceremony between Kate and Dion is interrupted by Norbit, who has been trying to outrun Rasputia in her car. He admits his love for her, and reveals Dion's plan to marry Kate just for her money.

** If it's [[spoiler:Aigis or Koromaru]], then Naoto will object on legal grounds. He's got good reason to do so -- [[spoiler:Aigis is a robot with a limited grasp of humanity, so she'd be considered a child in the eyes of the law]] and [[spoiler:Koromaru deserves [[BestialityIsDepraved no legal debate]]]].

** When a witch doctor curses the sisters to succumb to their petty desires, Paige becomes obsessed with her longtime FriendWithBenefits Glen who had just unexpectedly told her he was engaged right when she was ready to take things serious with him. She abducts the bride before the ceremony and uses magic to impersonate her. Leo rescues the bride and crashes the wedding, explaining to the confused priest that they're twin sisters.

* Turns up in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E9SomethingBorrowed Something Borrowed]]", with the twist that the interrupter isn't a romantic rival, as most of the congregation assume, but he's stopping the wedding because [[spoiler:the bride has been implanted with an alien egg, causing her to look nine months pregnant, and the egg's mother is coming to rip it out of her]].

* In ''FanFic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon'', Miyuki Takamachi treats Jadeite's attack on Kyouya's wedding as one of these after the fact. [[spoiler:Jadeite doesn't have any interest in the wedding -- she's just trying to assassinate Nanoha, but the good guys fight back]] and [[WeddingSmashers all hell breaks loose]]. When it's over, Miyuki wipes her swords off on her ruined bridesmaid's dress [[BondOneLiner and says]], "Does anyone ''else'' have a reason why these two should not be wed?"

* In ''Series/TheOddCouple1970'', episode "[[Recap/TheOddCouple1970S2E10BeingDivorcedIsNeverHavingToSayIDo
Being Divorced is Never Having to Say 'I Do']]", Oscar is elated when his ex-wife, Blanche, decides to remarry, as it means he'll no longer have to pay alimony. However, when the minister says the line during the ceremony, Felix objects, because he feels Blanche is marrying the wrong man. Blanche agrees, and the wedding is off. The next scene shows the angrily brooding Oscar, at home later that day, playing a recording of the wedding on his turntable, and lifting the needle to hear Felix's "I object" over and over. Then Felix comes home from the church.

: ::If that wasn't enough, they try the wedding again, and this time ''Oscar'' objects after the line is said.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has Yuna being forcibly hitched to [[BigBad Seymour]]. Cue [[BigDamnHeroes Tidus and the rest of the party]] [[GunshipRescue crashing in on an airship]] and [[BigDamnHeroes cutting down the guards]] on their way to save Yuna. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Yuna manages to save herself (after the wedding is finished), and all Tidus and company manage to do is get themselves captured]].

It's a DiscreditedTrope these days; the line is indeed said in RealLife weddings, but not as much as it used to be. The original purpose of the line was to see if anyone knew any ''legal'' reason that the couple couldn't be married (''e.g.'' one of them is [[OopsIForgotIWasMarried already married to someone else]], or the parties are [[SurpriseIncest related to each other]], or one of them is [[JailbaitTaboo underage]]). Modern wedding ceremonies tend to drop the line, mostly because of this trope -- it's an invitation for some StalkerWithACrush to crash someone's wedding, and a few {{Jerkass}}es have been known to crash strangers' weddings and, upon hearing the line, promptly call the bride a [[SlutShaming disease-ridden whore]]. And now that civil marriages have largely superceded religious marriages in most Western nations (at least on the legal end of things), the government can just refuse to issue a marriage license upon discovering that the marriage cannot legally take place. That said, the line is still required for certain religious wedding ceremonies, most notably in the Church of England.

* Marriage laws and forms vary a lot around the world, and asking this question is a legal requirement in some marriages, including those under the Church of England (which is the established church there and thus a state entity). It's especially obvious in a [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily British Royal wedding]], some of which are among the most viewed events on the ''planet'' -- and they do include the line, "Therefore, if any man can shew any just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace." The line comes from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. There's a modern variant from the Book of Common Worship: "First, I am required to ask anyone present who knows a reason why these persons may not lawfully marry, to declare it now." Non-Anglican weddings don't require the line, because notification of the intent to marry must be published 28 days in advance, providing ample opportunity to object.

* ''Film/TheGraduate'' has an attempt at such an objection which is so iconic as to be [[TheGraduateHomageShot a trope in itself]], with the objector banging on the church window [[SayMyName screaming the bride's name]]. Note that it's an ''attempt'' -- he technically shows up after the peace has been held.

* Parodied in ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'', where Kyosuke tries to stop Madoka from getting married. [[spoiler:Or so he thinks, because Madoka was only replacing the true bride (her older sister) during a wedding essay.]]

* In ''A Guy Thing'', the substitute [[Creator/LarryMiller priest]] (the [[Creator/JasonLee groom]]'s neighbor, who mistakenly believes him to be a pervert) says this phrase in a pleading manner, then continues to elaborate that the reason doesn't even have to be good, then gives the guests a minute to think about it. [[spoiler:Finally, it's the groom who ends up speaking up and explaining why he wants to call it off. The [[Creator/SelmaBlair bride]] gets a consolation prize -- the groom's brother, who's been in love with her for years, and the groom chases down the bride's [[Creator/JuliaStiles cousin]], whom he realizes is more his type]].

* In ''Series/TheOddCouple1970'', Oscar is elated when his ex-wife, Blanche, decides to remarry, as it means he'll no longer have to pay alimony. However, when the minister says the line during the ceremony, Felix objects, because he feels Blanche is marrying the wrong man. Blanche agrees, and the wedding is off. The next scene shows the angrily brooding Oscar, at home later that day, playing a recording of the wedding on his turntable, and lifting the needle to hear Felix's "I object" over and over. Then Felix comes home from the church.

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Though the actual wedding ceremonies use a different set of vows, when she is parading towards a ceremony to enter into a political marriage, [[spoiler:Daenarys]] thinks that if this were a story, [[spoiler:Daario Naharis]] would swoop in and grab her right ''now''. [[spoiler:[[DefiedTrope He doesn't]], [[RealityEnsues and the marriage goes ahead exactly as planned]]]].

** At the end, a low-key wedding for Barry and Iris is held with Diggle as the preacher. Once again, the wedding is interrupted, but this time by Felicity, who has decided to marry Oliver after all and insists to be married off as well.

* Spoofed in ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', in which the main character, having been pretending to be the fiancé of a man in a coma in order to spare the feelings of his family, is now in the chapel about to be married to him, when she's in fact fallen in love with his brother. She doesn't even let the priest get past "Dearly beloved..." before she raises an objection. And then the brother, who is the best man, feels he must also object. And then the groom's ''real'' fiancée storms in and objects. And then ''her husband'' objects to her objection...

* Episode 17 of ''WebVideo/TheJokerBlogs'', at Harleen's wedding: [[spoiler: Joker shoots Father [=McHale=] before he can get to "peace".]]

It's a DiscreditedTrope these days; the line is indeed said in RealLife weddings, but not as much as it used to be. The original purpose of the line was to see if anyone knew any ''legal'' reason that the couple couldn't be married (''e.g.'' one of them is [[OopsIForgotIWasMarried already married to someone else]], or the parties are [[SurpriseIncest related to each other]]). Modern wedding ceremonies tend to drop the line, mostly because of this trope -- it's an invitation for some StalkerWithACrush to crash someone's wedding, and a few {{Jerkass}}es have been known to crash strangers' weddings and, upon hearing the line, promptly call the bride a [[SlutShaming disease-ridden whore]]. And now that civil marriages have largely superceded religious marriages in most Western nations (at least on the legal end of things), the government can just refuse to issue a marriage license upon discovering that the marriage cannot legally take place. That said, the line is still required for certain religious wedding ceremonies, most notably in the Church of England.

* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', Lone Star arrives JustInTime to prevent Vespa from marrying Prince Valium, revealing that [[spoiler:he's just discovered [[SuddenlySuitableSuitor he's a genuine prince]] and can marry Vespa instead]]. Because of this, Valium doesn't seem to object too much himself.

* In ''Anime/MaiOtome'', as a variation, Akane's lover Kazuya disrupts her Meister ceremony, just as she is about to become the King of Florince's Otome. He proclaims that he loves her, and the two flee away. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:Kazuya becomes the new King of Cardair and Akane is forcefully contracted to him as his Otome, allowing them to be together but effectively cancelling the possibility of any real relationship between them]].