Ruling on doing weddings in the mosque and always starting with recitation of Quraan and exhortation
Question

                What is the ruling on always doing weddings in the mosques, and having a specific format such as reciting Qur’aan at the beginning, then giving a speech, then doing the marriage contract at the end?.
Praise be to Allah.
    Firstly: 

    The majority of fuqaha’ are of the view that it is mustahabb 
    to do the marriage contract in the mosque, and they quoted as evidence for 
    that the hadeeth: “Announce the marriage and do it in the mosque and beat 
    daffs for that.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (1089), but it is da’eef (weak) – 
    except the part about announcing the marriage – as al-Albaani said in 
    Da’eef al-Tirmidhi. 

    It says in Majma’ al-Anhar (1/317): It is mustahabb to 
    do the marriage contract in the mosque, and to do it on a Friday, but they 
    differed as to whether it is makrooh to hold the wedding party there. The 
    best view is that it is not makrooh if it does not involve anything that is 
    detrimental to religious practice. End quote. 

    Al-Khorashi said in Sharh Khaleel (7/71): i.e., it is 
    permissible to do the marriage contract (in the mosque), i.e., the proposal 
    and response, rather that is mustahabb. End quote. 

    And it says in Nihaayat al-Muhtaaj (6/185): It is 
    Sunnah to get married in Shawwaal, to consummate the marriage in (Shawwaal), 
    to do the marriage contract in the mosque, to do it before a group of people 
    and to do it at the beginning of the day. End quote. 

    It says in Kashshaaf al-Qinaa’ (2/368): It is 
    permissible to do the marriage contract in (the mosque), rather it is 
    mustahabb as was mentioned by some of our companions. End quote. 

    Secondly: 

    When doing the marriage contract in the mosque it is 
    essential that this does not result in any disrespect towards the mosque or 
    doing any reprehensible deeds therein, such as beating the daff, and no 
    nasheeds should be sung therein. Rather the marriage contract is enough, but 
    if any Qur’aan is read or a speech is given, there is nothing wrong with 
    that, but that should not always be done, because there is no evidence for 
    reading Qur’aan in wedding parties or at other times, and some of the 
    scholars regarded that as an innovation (bid’ah). 

    Shaykh ‘Abd al-Razzaaq ‘Afeefi (may Allaah have mercy on him) 
    was asked about the ruling on reading Qur’aan out loud in parties and 
    gatherings such as wedding parties: is this an innovation? 

    He replied: It is an innovation to begin gatherings 
    officially with recitation of Qur’aan, because there is no text concerning 
    that, so it should not be taken as a custom, but it is permissible to do it 
    sometimes. I had a disagreement with the Council of Senior Scholars when 
    they opened meetings with the recitation of Qur’aan. I said: This is an 
    innovation. This was not done by the Messenger  (peace and blessings of 
    Allaah be upon him), whose gatherings were many, and he is the leader whose 
    example is to be followed. But if there is a speech which includes some 
    verses of Qur’aan, there is nothing wrong with that. End quote from 
    Fataawa wa Rasaa’il al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Razzaaq al-‘Afeefi, p. 621. 

    And Allaah knows best.