banns

“I’m going to pack up my two kids and my dog and drive up with all my documents,” including their banns, Quebec’s required public announcement of an impending marriage.

A photograph of the wedding banns has been posted in several newspapers.

The marriage banns, posted on a bulletin board in the town hall, included those for an auto-body painter and a cashier, a zinc roofer and his stay-at-home fiancée, and an optician and a midwife.

The minute the daffodils are out, so too are the wedding banns, with lovers lining up for the summer wedding, a froth of white lace, poached salmon and a sea of overpriced flowers.

The executive order banns nearly all forms of travel to the country from seven majority-Muslim nations and halts the processing of refugees.