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Express your inability to attend your friend's wedding reception.


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What If Someone Objects at Your Wedding?

By Natalie Wolchover August 08, 2012

Wedding objections used to be a last-ditch effort to prevent illicit shenanigans.

Wedding objections used to be a last-ditch effort to prevent illicit shenanigans.

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Except for melodramatic movie weddings, the minister's instruction that "if anyone can show just cause why this couple cannot lawfully be joined together in matrimony, let them speak now or forever hold their peace" almost always gets omitted from ceremonies these days.

All three wedding officiants contacted for this article said they never utter the line. "It has become obsolete," said Paula Posman, a New York City-based officiant who runs the wedding services company A New York Way to Say I Do.

The tradition has been phased out because no legitimate grounds remain for objecting to a wedding. "You can't object simply because you're in love with the bride. It has to be a legal reason why the couple can't wed," Posman told Life's Little Mysteries. "But today, the legal aspects of a wedding are squared away before the couple gets to the altar, so most officiants just don't ask the question." No point creating an awkward silence for nothing.

But in the past, what sort of objections might have been raised?

In the bygone days of charlatans, swindlers, elopements and bad record-keeping, "speak now or forever hold your peace" was a last-ditch effort to bring to light any illicit shenanigans that would nullify a wedding in the eyes of God. According to the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, impediments to a marriage include either the bride or groom being married already, having made a vow of celibacy, being underage, having been kidnapped or forced to wed, not being baptized, being incapable of having sexual intercourse, or having killed the other's former spouse. There are also stipulations about how closely a couple.

Answer 2

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Dear Rushi,

This is in reply to your invitation to the marriage of your elder brother, scheduled to be held on 17th August. I am sorry to inform you that I would not be able to attend the marriage as I have to appear at the AIEEE incidentally scheduled to be held the same day. Please accept my heartiest congratulations on this happy occasion.

As you know, this has been my aim to become an engineer. This has been my childhood dream. I have been working for the last one year for the examination. In fact you always encouraged and inspired me to take the examination very seriously. What a coincidence it is! I had been waiting for a long time to attend a marriage ceremony in your family

YOUR FRIEND..

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