In Fiddler on the Roof, the youngest daughter runs off and marries an Eastern Orthodox Russian man, seemingly with little fuss on the part of the church. Would it really have been so easy?

by redooo
frjohnwhiteford

The daughter would have to have first been baptized, and the marriage would have to have been announced at three Liturgies prior to the wedding taking place. So a minimum of three days would have had to have passed. But normally, someone of another faith would not be baptized without having first having a period of instruction in the faith. So it is unlikely, unless she was being instructed in secret, that this would have happened in less than several months at a minimum.

Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, trans. Isabell Florence Hapgood (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906), p 467-469. http://fortsmithorthodox.org/Hapgood%20Service%20Book.pdf