As far as I know, if you want to get married in a C of E church, you still have to have the banns published on 3 Sundays beforehand.

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It would be very interesting to see a modern drama in which someone overtly questioned the marriage of two people in a ceremony.

If I remember rightly, it was at that point in the ceremony the deaf brother intervened in the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral", thus preventing Hugh Grant from marrying the wrong woman. Not quite as dramatic as the revelation in 'Jane Eyre' that Rochester was already married, though.

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