[Magdalen] Wedding?

[Michael Bishop]

A nuptial eucharist is not usual in CofE although Common Worship does 
provide a form for a wedding to be within one. I have attended and 
officiated at many weddings over the past 45 or so years but never once 
has there been a nuptial eucharist at one and never has there been any 
request or enquiry about having one. I think this is because the 1662 
BCP had no provision for one and the 1928 proposed BCP which was never 
legally authorised simply provided Collect and Readings for use "if 
there be a Communion". I thin k the rarity of nuptial eucharist is a 
consequence of tghe CofE being the Established Church - many if not most 
weddings in church are those of people who are not communicant members 
of the CofE.

God bless

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Michael Bishop
rev at michaelbishop.name

On 19/05/2018 16:04, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> I watched it via NBC.  I didn't intend that but the gang was mostly
> from MSNBC there, and they did a good job.  The music
> wasn't my cup of tea, but it wasn't my royal wedding (!).
>   
> I have a question about a Nuptial Eucharist.  I vaguely recall at
> the time of the wedding of Charles and Di that the custom was
> to have the marriage couple go off somewhere private for a
> Nuptial Communion.  Is that still the custom, and did Harry and
> Megan get a marriage communion before or after the televised
> liturgy?
>   
> This is similar, I have heard, to the Coronation Liturgy in which
> an abbreviated private Communion is fitted in for the Monarch
> alone.  As I understand it, the Coronation is really a Eucharist
> which has insertions for crowning the King/Queen.
>   
> I think that TEC may be a little more high church in general than
> the CofE in that a percentage of weddings do feature the Eucharist.
> Certainly mine did, as did those of my two children.  The latter two
> were Pontifical Solemn High Nuptial Masses.  There was never any
> discussion about a simple liturgy without Eucharist.  My impressions
> in this matter may be skewed by my exposure to TEC Anglocatholic
> dioceses.
>   
> In a message dated 5/19/2018 9:51:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, rev at michaelbishop.name writes:
>
>   
> I was very pleased that the service itself was precisely that which any
> couple getting married in the CofE - whether the smallest village church
> or a big place like Windsor Chapel. Even the hymns were such that would
> be sung in ordinary parish churches. Of course there were trimmings like
> the  choirs and orchestra, but otherwise it was normal. The sermon was,
> I found, a fine one - and a sermon is officially part of any wedding
> service (although I confess to not usually preaching at weddings as I
> have never been convinced that people would listen).