_Marriage Service_ (Vol. viii., p. 150.).--I have been many years in holy
orders, and have always received the fee together with the ring on the
Prayer Book, as directed in the Rubric. The ring I return to the bridegroom
to place upon the bride's finger; the fee (or offering) I deposit in the
offertory basin, held for that purpose by the clerk, and on going to the
chancel (the marriage taking place in the body of the church) lay it on the
altar. Note.--In the parish in which I first ministered, the marriages had
always been commenced in the body of the church, as directed; in the second
parish in which I ministered, that custom had only been broken by the
present incumbent a few years since.