“Please don’t cancel anything yet.”

He didn’t put it back on.

No judge had canceled the wedding.

No subpoena had automatically ended an engagement.

A man was refusing to proceed with a ceremony because he no longer trusted what he had been told, while vendors faced payment problems the preserved proceeds could not solve.

The music was lowered.

Someone removed the schedule from its stand.

The coordinator began giving staff instructions in the practical voice used when plans changed.