On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 14:19, Andy Andrews <andy@andrewsgen.com> wrote:
... As a result, he had long adopted the practice of insisting that all those involved should visit the church the day before, and complete the register in a calm and, by implication, more sober manner. ...
:-) He can't be the only one to have done this because - for whatever reason - I do occasionally find marriages entries in PRs that are complete apart from signatures. Obviously all filled in beforehand apart from the sigs but then the marriage never took place in that church at that time.