[Magdalen] Supreme Court

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 6/29/15 11:35 AM, Mahoney, W. Michael wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:40 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My brother and his wife married each other with two witnesses.
>> No officiant. Their marriage is legal in Colorado (and everywhere
>> else, I presume).
>>
>
> Right.
>
> My daughter and son-in-law got married in Colorado last year.  They got
> married by getting the proper forms forms, completing said forms, and
> returning them along with the necessary fees.  They did not even need a
> third party witness to their signatures.
>
> Of course, if a guest at the event in which they publicly expressed vows to
> each failed to pay close attention, he or she might well have thought
> that I married
> them.  The truth is that, for all practical purposes, I was merely the
> Master of Ceremonies (and an MC who both felt immensely privileged and had
> a lot fun)
>
> The thing to remember is that it is the couple that marries.  The church
> may bless or not, and the State may recognize or not, but a marriage is a
> marriage.

My husband and I got married 50 years ago last August, in Oklahoma 
(their prerequisites were easier at the time than Kansas had, and we've 
always done a lot of state-line shopping in this area).  We went down 
and filled out papers on the Wednesday, and had our blood samples drawn 
for blood tests, then went back on the Saturday and exchanged our vows 
in the Judge's office, with the Judge's secretary and a secretary from 
down the hall as witnesses.  The marriage lasted 13 years, and produced 
one child.  He died in 2001.  I'm now collecting my Retirement Social 
Security check from his account rather than my own, because his gives me 
a bigger monthly check than mine would.  I count as a widow, because the 
rule is ten years married.


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Sibyl Smirl
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