Do people really do this?

[theniceunderstandingone]

Just a lighthearted one

So I'm just binge watching this new FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL series and the amount of times the characters have jumped on a plane across the world to stop someone's wedding because they love them.

I'm wondering has anyone actually heard of this really happening?!

Would love some stories or is it just a Hollywood fantasy (in every single romantic film ever made...)

This is where technology is a positive, these days you could just whatsapp the object of your affections 😄

@StripeyBumblebee hahaha yep. Definitely saves a lot in air fairs

It gets you a phenomenal bollocking from the celebrant / vicar if you do it in real life because it isn’t a valid reason to halt a ceremony - only things which would legally invalidate a marriage like bigamy / the bride and groom actually being brother and sister count.

(It happened at a friend’s brother’s wedding, though not sure if they flew across oceans or just drove from down the road.)

I'm a registrar and I can tell you that wouldn't fly in England. To halt a wedding in England it needs to be a LAWFUL reason, such as someone committing bigamy, or fraudulent reasons. Simply fancying, or shagging, the married to be couple, is irrelevant. Standing up and declaring your love is not a lawful reason to stop the wedding. I've had people think it was a funny joke to object during the wedding. All it does is cause a load of fuss and hassle needlessly, as we have to take it seriously and halt the wedding, interview the bride/groom and the person who objected and then restart the wedding. Worth noting that couples can choose their wedding scripts, and plenty of people choose not to have the words 'if there is any lawful objection' in their ceremony. So quite often it doesn't come up anyway.

@ComtesseDeSpair @kardashianklone see I never knew that!