Legal US Ceremony AFTER DW?

DarcyJAde · July 15, 2009

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Originally Posted by Brenda&Jeff09

I am confused too... the resort I am working with said it will be a legal ceremony... then we wouldn't need to do it here in the US too, right? That was my understanding anyway.

Just my 2 cents to clear up any confusion. If you opted to have a LEGAL ceremony at your resort, then NO you do no need to "legalize" it in the U.S. It will be a legal marriage already. In some countries (like D.R. for example), it is a lot of paperwork and $$ to have a LEGAL ceremony. So in our case, we are having a SYMBOLIC ceremony (which is an actual ceremony and no one would even know it is not a legal ceremony). We plan to marry secretly in the U.s. BEFORE we go. That way we can celebrate a real honeymoon as well.

HTH!

GracieBebe · July 16, 2009

For us, we are getting married in France and France has strict restrictions that you have to be a resident for at least 40 days to have a legal ceremony there so we are going to do a symbolic ceremony first and do the legal one after we get back. We are big proponents of pre-nups so we just don't have the time to get that done before the DW so we will get them done afterwards and have a legal ceremony here in the U.S. (maybe Hawaii, maybe Vegas, who knows...).

crazyldy · July 16, 2009

That would be my perfect wedding. But My FI doesn't think it would be fair to have a wedding in Mexico and then a wedding in Colorado (where we live) because his family and friends live in tx so we couldn't have them come out here too.

Erika J · July 16, 2009

We will be doing the legal stuff upon our return to the , this was it feels more like filling out paperwork when we get home that having this big secret marriange before we leave. I am bad with secrets. Also Mexico will be the first time we say the vows to each other.