Banns

Publication of the Banns was the public announcement by the minister during a normal church service that two people wish to marry, and an invitation to the congregation to declare any unlawful reason why they should not marry.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

Publication of the Banns was the public announcement by the minister during a normal church service that two people wish to marry, and an invitation to the congregation to declare any unlawful reason why they should not marry.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

Banns… and I do believe that you have made me drunk.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Banns… and I do believe that you have made me drunk.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Banns… and I do believe that you have made me drunk.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Banns had to be published before a marriage could take place.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

In Catholic and Anglican churches one ‘published’ the Banns of Marriage by announcing them at the service … actually printing them on paper was an * innovation*.

Publish or publish « BuzzMachine 2005

Banns had to be published before a marriage could take place.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

The love and piety of all the villages around us; said the postillion — it is but three years ago, that the sun did not shine upon so fair, so quick-witted and amiable a maid; and better fate did Maria deserve, than to have her Banns forbid, by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

On the sixteenth of next month the Banns must be put up in Ossory church, or you will lose the money.

No Name 2003