[Avodah] To Stand or Not to Stand for a Chosson and Kallah

[Saul Guberman]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:05, Dov Weinstock
<dov.weinstock at nycadvantage.com> wrote:
> This standing for the C&K seems to be a recent innovation. It seems likely
> that it was copied from church weddings. Why is it not forbidden by
> chareidim as chukos hagoyim?

It was never an issue until seats were put out for the ceremony.  Until
recently the ceremony was always outside and all the people stood through
the entire ceremony.  This is still done at many weddings.  Putting out
seats & having the ceremony inside seems to be the chukas hagoyim issue,
not standing for C&K.

Saul