[Avodah] standing for chasan and kallah

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

Rav Elazar M Teitz wrote:
> No, because the gathering is one of simcha shel mitzva, even
> if it has not yet taken place.

R' Moshe Y. Gluck commented:
> I don't recall _ever_ being at a Chasunah Minyan that said
> Tachanun, even when the Chasan was _not_ Davening then.

It seems to me that RMYG's observation actually *supports* REMT's suggestion: The gathering is one of simcha shel mitzva, even if the chasan is not with them.

Here's another sitation which might shed some light on this: Has anyone attended a Siyum at which Mincha was said? That's surely a simcha shel mitzva, no? Did they skip Tachanun?

(It did not attend it, but I happen to have a copy of the beautiful printed program from the 1997 Siyum HaShas at Madison Square Garden. It includes a text for the Mincha/Maariv which was said there, and it does NOT include Tachanun. However, I do not consider that to be valid evidence for our question, because the text was Nusach Sefard, which often [though not always] skips Tachanun entirely.)

Akiva Miller