In old days, when Hollywood directors wanted to portray a marriage, they turned to the high-church Anglican language and form, so that the priest would unite the couple in “holy WEDLOCK.” Something of the sense of holiness yet remains among even secular people, who will often don the garb and assume the language of the old rites, rather like peopl…
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