So.... What happens when a person, or people stand up at a wedding and protest after does the preacher does the "or forever hold your peace" bit?

Like if you seriously stood up and had a reason...

What would happen after you stated your reason/explanation/etc?

A sh!tstorm? How much did the wedding that may be ruined cost? If someone has anything to say then it should be said before. If that is the case and the objection was ignored, too bad. I say just shut up and let people make their own mistakes.

Most ceremonies exclude the phrase "if anyone objects or knows any reason why these two should not be married speak now or forever hold your peace". Simply because it is no longer relevant. The reason they use to use this phrase is because there was no record keeping, and it was to make sure neither the groom or bride was still married.

IN short nothing would really happen because the bride and groom would have already applied for the marriage license and it already would have been verified that neither were married.

The traditional reasons to object to the marriage were all sexual--she's not a virgin, she's got kids, she slept with all the men on the groom's side of the altar this morning. Nowadays, many women don't take their virginity to the altar, lots of women have children before they're married (or bring children from previous marriages into the new one)...okay, marrying a woman who had sex with the best man on the morning of the wedding is a bit questionable, but generally that doesn't happen.

They also have these things called bridezillas...oh man, you object at one of THEIR weddings and you could get shot. By the bride, and at the ceremony.

I have officiated at weddings since 1983, lots of weddings, all kinds of weddings, and it has never happened.....yet.

I don't think I've actually heard of this happening. I saw it once on Everybody Loves Raymond. I would have had to shoot Marie.