"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 9/25/2014 9:17 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> I do remember the wedding though and how I thought we'd never get
>> through it. My friend was stuck kneeling at the altar for what seemed
>> like forever. She had a lace dress on and high heels and she was
>> nervous. Her feet kept shaking and getting caught in the lace. So I
>> kept fixating on that and the never ending masses.
>>
>> Time frame on that though was late 1970's.
>>
>> I have gone to church with my inlaws many times and aside from a few
>> words here and there, nothing was in Latin.
>
> I was married in a Catholic church by a priest in 1979 and they used to do
> it both ways - a full mass or just a marriage ceremony. I've been to
> both, so I know what you mean. Mine was just a marriage ceremony.

My friend wasn't given a choice. If she got married there it was their way
or none.