Evidence including wedding videos continued in Christchurch District Court today as a defended hearing resumed against two men charged with illegally marrying a couple in 2006.
Two days of evidence in the case were heard two months ago and it continued before Judge Jane Farish today.
Before the court are Geoffrey Robert Topham Hall, of Pines Beach, Kaiapoi, a 55-year-old funeral director, and the Reverend Maurice Manawaroa Gray, a 53-year-old minister from Cashmere.
They deny joint charges of falsely pretending to be a marriage celebrant and knowingly making a false declaration - the signing of the marriage papers.
Defence counsel James Rapley has already told the court that legal discussion would be needed about the wording of the requirement in the Marriage Act for a marriage to be "solemnised in the presence" of a marriage celebrant.
The evidence was heard in June from the couple named in the charges, but evidence was heard today about other weddings where Hall had officiated. A man who had been married by Hall in a ceremony on the shores of Lake Coleridge said he knew all 120 people who attended the ceremony and he had not seen Grey.
A recording of the wedding was played to the hearing showing Hall conducting the ceremony.
Questioned by Mr Rapley, the groom said Hall had not told him he was in training and the wedding would be conducted "under the umbrella" of Grey, his boss.
The hearing is continuing.