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Have you ever been to a wedding?

If so, you’re probably familiar with the way things go. All the family gathers, music plays and the loving couple proceeds to the front of the altar. Towards the end of the ceremony, before the couple is joined together, the priest or ordained minister turns to the crowd. “If any of you has reasons why these two should not be married, speak now or forever hold your peace.” Typically, nobody says anything.

In one story out of Portugal, one groom decided to interrupt his own wedding.