I guess technically they weren’t on US soil, but why didn’t congress stay up all night passing a law against this kind of thing?

“I know that country singers wear their cowboy hats all the time, but technically speaking, cowboy hats are worn by cowboys when they are doing cowboy activities.”

Hats have no place during the ceremony, at the very least, Ervin says. “Not cowboy hats, not baseball hats, not fedoras. It looks ridiculous.”

History is on her side. “Typically, Christians take off their hats to pray — it requires you to in the New Testament — and getting married could be considered a kind of religious ceremony,” says the Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg, author of Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora, and the History of American Style.

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“considered a kind of religious ceremony?” Well, if you insist…