2 Wedding Ceremonies

[Griffon76 0]

I wonder if anyone has had this dilemma?

As our wedding plans have been started suddenly we tried to plan a date that would give guests sufficient time to make plans as well as give time for one divorce to be finalized (paperwork was not started until this last visit when we decided not to wait any longer to get married) As it turns out, the original marriage certificate couldn't be found so the attorney requested it from wherever it is filed. 2 months have passed and no sign of the certificate. He can't proceed with the divorce until he has it. When we set the date for us, it factored in the time frame that the attorney gave us for it to be finalized. Now it looks as if it might not get done in time. So we plan to have the religious/family ceremony as planned and get the civil one done as soon as we are able. Is that weird??? If we waited to have the paperwork in hand then most family and friends might not be able to come on such a short notice. I wish it were the other way around, civil first then the religious later but we have deposits on everything and don't want to cancel as people already have made plans to come. You never know, everything might work out just right but I'm getting worried LOL

Any input??

[MHandMB 0]

We're doing the opposite. We had to get married administratively in order to satisfy the requirements of the k-1 visa, but we wanted to have a big ceremony in front of family and friends, so we're doing that in November. We didn't do anything special for our civil ceremony. It was literally me, him, and a notary; we signed the papers, the notary signed after us, and we kissed. The big ceremony will be our "wedding."

[Miranda&James 8]

With this process things definitely don't always work out as planned! We were very worried we wouldn't be able to have the wedding we planned (thank goodness it worked out) but if it hadn't I probably would have done the same as you and go ahead with the wedding even though it isn't a legal marriage. Besides, you really don't even have to tell anyone except close family it isn't 'legal', everyone will still think it's a beautiful wedding and they don't need to know all the paperwork isn't signed!