I have family ALL OVER the country and wanted to do a West Coast wedding in Vegas and a East Coast Wedding in DC where I live. How do I do this?
2006-10-16 03:58:40 · 17 answers · asked by chocolate_krys2000 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
This is quite common actually for people with bi-coastal or international relationships. You can have either wedding be the "official wedding" and the other a ceremony. It is probably a better idea to have the official ceremony where you live if possible so you can easily take care of whatever filings and forms and blood tests (if applicable) your local state/district and/or municipality requires. You can treat both as a full wedding in itself if you like or make one a wedding ceremony and the other a reception honoring the marriage. It's up to you and your spouse.
2006-10-16 04:38:53 · answer #1 · answered by Tara P 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simple enough. File for a marriage license in DC and have a legal wedding there with an authorized officiant and two witnesses to sign the certificate.
Then, either before or after that wedding, celebrate a wedding without paperwork in Las Vegas. As long as your officiant is OK with performing the ceremony without the license, you should be fine.
Sounds like a lot of work and a lot of fun! Good Luck!
2006-10-16 12:03:36 · answer #2 · answered by Kya Rose 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. You get one wedding per marriage. It would be in poor taste to have re-run ceremonies, acting as if your wedding and your solemn vows are a sort of a piece of showbiz you can re-perform and take on the road. Miss Manners (Judith Martin) has written several articles about how inappropriate it is.
However, you can have as many receptions as you like, if you want to spend your honeymoon going from reception to reception all around the country.
2006-10-17 21:34:23 · answer #3 · answered by Etiquette Gal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From experience I would have a "ceremony" in Vegas & my legal marriage in D.C (both would be legal) but since the laws vary from state to state the place in D.C. would know exacty what you'd need to change your name and all of that. I'm doing the same thing. I got hitched back in Aug & my husband & I will have another ceremony when his kids can come down. When I got married in Tennessee, they give you a "certificate." The Social security office wants a license to change your name. Check the laws. Since the laws very from state to state. Good luck.
2006-10-16 12:25:46 · answer #4 · answered by BROOKE D 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just do one wedding. Now you can have another reception to celebrate your wedding but having two ceremonies dilutes the whole idea..... you have gotten married and are now one. The first signing the papers was it.
2006-10-16 11:59:20 · answer #5 · answered by jackson 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure you can only have one marriage license, but there's nothing saying you can't do two weddings (just one will be without the legal binding paperwork).
Basiaclly, your second ceremony (or first however you do it) would be a reenactment of the first. How fun!
Congrats!!
2006-10-16 11:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenixsong 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your just have one legal wedding- the first one and the second one will be an reactment. You would do it exactly the same- you would just skip the paper work part..... you could still have a priest or minster "remarry" you and go through the vowels.
2006-10-16 11:28:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
you have the first "legal" wedding performed by a judge, priest, minister, etc. Your 2ND "wedding is actually a renewal of your vows and you can have anyone do that. You don't have to have a licensed person do that.
2006-10-16 11:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by wynbug 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can hold the real wedding first & then a "renewal of vowes" second. You would only sign the marriage licence once though.
2006-10-16 15:00:13 · answer #9 · answered by ee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
having two events is fine, but only one is the actual legal wedding.
2006-10-16 11:08:01 · answer #10 · answered by yonitan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋