If anyone knows of any lawful impediment....

We asked our vicar if this had ever happened to him and he said yes!!!!

He said that when he asked if there was any lawful impediment, the bride's mother jumped up and said that the groom wasn't good enough for her daughter and started ranting, she had to be escorted out of the church apparently ?

The vicar said that he could not accept the objection and had to carry on because it wasn't "lawful" i.e the groom wasn't a bigamist or anything, it was just a personal grievance that the mother of the bride had!

I cant help thinking what the reception was like afterwards though, tense i bet! ?

OMG, how mad would you be at your mum!! i dont think i'd ever talk to her again!! there was me thinking i had a 'mumzilla'!!

Our vicar told us that people who do it without an actual reason get fined! About £200, I think it was, for 'Disrupting a religious ceremony'!

I don't know of anyone actually doing it though!

And the tradition I heard was that if someone does do it for no lawful reason, they have to pay for the church fees. Bit of a story if you ask me though.

I hate this part of the ceremony...... my stomach will churn over an over and I have no reason why - unless they find out that OH and I are 23rd cousins, 5th removed or summin equally silly given our matching names! I would have to kill someone.... LOL!

wouldn't worry about that teehee given that your allowed to marry your first cousin should you so desire!!

x

Never seen it happen myself.

Teehee how good is that! You don't have to get used to using a new name.

Scott Mills was talking about this on radio 1 a couple of months ago and got people to call in if they knew it had happened *off to google for any info on this * which people did. But we had got to work by this point and missed what was said

Oh I do Spring. I'm changing my name to my mothers name...... which is his name.......

still feels werid though. My initials wont change though!