| Show weddin weddings s held at home till invalidated by clergy until the tenth century the christian peoples of europe continued to marry themselves in the home despite the efforts of the clergy for hundreds of years yeal to have weddings held in the church says colliers at that time however the laity b began egan to yield but only to the extent of performing the ceremony outside of the door of the church in the presence of the priest this custom lasted until the middle of the sixteenth century when an ecclesiastical council passed and enforced a law making invalid all marriages held outside the church |
