Canon 828

1. Only those marriages are valid which are celebrated with a

sacred rite, in the presence of the local hierarch, local pastor,

or a priest who has been given the faculty of blessing the marriage by either of them, and at least two witnesses, according,

however to the prescriptions of the following canons, with due

regard for the exceptions mentioned in cann. 832 and 834, 2.

2. That rite which is considered a sacred rite is the intervention a priest assisting and blessing.