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[Caladan 19]

There are plenty of reasons one might not have a boarding pass:

-The ink on NWA's passes degrades over time. I have one from March of 05 that's barely legible.

-The flight attendant may take one's boarding pass in order to ask the pilot to try to find one's luggage and fail to return it (this may just be me & my adventures with AC Jazz, though.)

-Hard as it may be to believe, not everyone meets their future spouse with the idea 'This will be my spouse, therefore I must document everything.' (Especially between the U.S. and Canada where multiple meetings are easy.) My fiancé and I have been together since early 2004 (meetings) and for the first year I have no primary evidence at all. Partially because he is Canadian and neither of us had a passport at first, and partially because we didn't think to save boarding passes because we weren't yet trying to prove to anyone we were dating. By 2005 I had started to research some of the process, and so I just made a file folder for receipts & info.

I've also found that between the U.S. & Canada at least, both sides are sort of lax about stamping passports. I have U.S. return stamp without a corresponding Canadian entry stamp (it was 1am in Edmonton, and 5 overdue planes had just landed and there were two customs guys). I have a Canadian entry stamp and a U.S. return stamp that was marked on my boarding pass.

Anyhow, to the OP: I sent in a one-page itinerary for one of the meetings to back up a barely legible set of boarding passes. I don't think an itinerary could stand on its own, but it can certainly help paint a picture with passport stamps.