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jr10   0

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Hi visajourney! i want to ask something.. can anybody help me about my question.. is it required to get married in the church in the U.S. for k1 or even civil marriage is ok? im a catholic and i just want to know if the civil marriage is ok for k1 or suppose to be church? i want only a simple wedding.. the affordable.. what will you can anybody recommend for me? if you married judge, is that a civil marriage? one more question, what is officiant and judge and minister? can anybody explain to me.. is officiant and judge and minister is similar?

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Hi visajourney! i want to ask something.. can anybody help me about my question.. is it required to get married in the church in the U.S. for k1 or even civil marriage is ok? im a catholic and i just want to know if the civil marriage is ok for k1 or suppose to be church? i want only a simple wedding.. the affordable.. what will you can anybody recommend for me? if you married judge, is that a civil marriage? one more question, what is officiant and judge and minister? can anybody explain to me.. is officiant and judge and minister is similar?

Civil marriage is fine.

An officiant is a person authorized to marry you and does the "officiating". Performs the ceremony. This can be done by a judge, a priest, a minister, a Justice of the Peace in some states. In Vermont you can be a wedding officiant for a day with the payment of a $25 fee, so it can even be a friend or relative here that pays the fee and is deputized as an officiant for the day. Often people have the father of the bride be the officiant at backyard weddings. Our neighbor is a Justice of the Peace and she walked over and did our ceremony on the front lawn at the lakefront with Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains for a background.

In Vermont, at least, there does not actually have to be any "vows" or ceremony at all. As long as both parties sign the marriage license in front of the officiant and then the officiant signs the form the rest is just a ceremony. You can write your own vows, go with what the person officiating uses or just sign the paper and be on your way. We went with the officiant vows which were the usual promises with a little embellishment.

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You don't need to get married in a church for it to be legal. You can go to a courthouse and have a judge marry you (or hire a judge to marry you wherever you want to go). You'll just need the marriage license to get married and then you'll get a marriage certificate after the ceremony to prove you legally got married.

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We got married in a court room with a criminal judge marrying us. There is no requirement of/on how you marry. Just that you marry within the 90 days of entry on the K-1.

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We got married in a court room with a criminal judge marrying us. There is no requirement of/on how you marry. Just that you marry within the 90 days of entry on the K-1.

I would add that there may be certain requirements based on where you get married to have it count as official. Be sure to check the specifics when applying for the marriage license. For example, some places require two witnesses to view the wedding.

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The options for marriage in the U.S. are numerous -- in Las Vegas, you don't even have to get out of the car to get married or you can get married while flying over the city in a helicopter and you'd be as legally married as married could get. No church is required as a venue.

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Hi jr10! Your wedding may be in church or a civil wedding (with the justice of the peace, or a judge) as long as the state recognizes it as valid. But since you mentioned that you are catholic, you're probably considering (or wishing for) a church wedding. I must say that it is possible to have a simple church wedding. We are going to have that when my visa gets approved. My fiance talked to his parish priest, explained our situation (we don't have much money) and what we want (a simple, inexpensive and VALID wedding that can be held within 3 mos. of my arrival in the U.S.) and our request is granted. It'll just be me, my man, the priest, 2 witnesses, and God at the side chapel of the parish church. My fiance coordinated with his parish right after he filed the I-129F (most churches require 6 months advance notice) and we were given the list of requirements (marriage license, certificates, etc.) that we have to prepare. There's no church fee to be paid, just a voluntary donation. :innocent:

The point is, you have a lot of options if your objective is just to comply with the K visa requirement. And a church wedding can still be one of them. God bless!

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