How easy is it to be able to preform marriage legally?

Karl Hungus

I've always wondered this, as it seems a bit of a TV cliche that someone can just hop on the internet, and after a few clicks be registered to legally marry people.

How easy would it be in reality?

o1s1n

As far as I know, all you have to do is be ordained a minister. Which you can do online for free

http://www.themonastery.org/

Piste

What about a civil marriage?

Karl Hungus

o1s1n wrote:

As far as I know, all you have to do is be ordained a minister. Which you can do online for free

http://www.themonastery.org/

So you really can do it over the internet like that and it would be legally recognised? I was thinking it was perhaps fantasty that people could do that.

Galvasean

Karl Hungus wrote:

So you really can do it over the internet like that and it would be legally recognised? I was thinking it was perhaps fantasty that people could do that.

Nope. Gone are the days when marriage was exclusively governed by the church. Heck, a lot of people are married without doing anything remotely like a wedding ceremony.

Karl Hungus

Galvasean wrote:

Nope. Gone are the days when marriage was exclusively governed by the church. Heck, a lot of people are married without doing anything remotely like a wedding ceremony.

Yeah, but for it to be legally recognised?

iguana

It depends on what country you are living in. There is no way to do that in Ireland. The laws governing civil marriage ceremonies are very strict.

o1s1n

By registering on that site, you are legally able to perform weddings in the U.S.

I can remember reading somewhere that if you were a ordained a minister in the U.S, it would be recognized over here too.

Thanks for bringing this up by the way. I'd completely forgotten I had this super power. (runs off to marry some random people on the street)

o1s1n

iguana wrote:

It depends on what country you are living in. There is no way to do that in Ireland. The laws governing civil marriage ceremonies are very strict.

It's not so much the civil registering part as it is performing the ceremony.

Oriel

Karl Hungus wrote:

I've always wondered this, as it seems a bit of a TV cliche that someone can just hop on the internet, and after a few clicks be registered to legally marry people.

How easy would it be in reality?

Has somebody been watching Friends recently?

Karl Hungus

Oriel wrote:

Has somebody been watching Friends recently?

No. If you must know, it was an episode of Alias.

ctc_celtic

you only get married by law when you sign the registrar after the church sermon.
so you could get married in a field and have the sheep doing the sermon and then go to the official office and registrar there.
either way your still married, its only 'in the eyes of god' that you wont be married.

Reku

Eh, Karl, you do know she still has to say yes don't you? Just because you're allowed to wed people doesn't mean you can marry yourself to that girl you've been stalking without her consent.

AlmightyCushion

farohar wrote:

Eh, Karl, you do know she still has to say yes don't you? Just because you're allowed to wed people doesn't mean you can marry yourself to that girl you've been stalking without her consent.

Well I've lost interest in this thread now.

seamus

As said, such ordainings (?) would be useless over here. Over here there are only certain places that are legally recognised as wedding registries. I don't have any comprehensive list, but roughly that's almost every catholic church, every civil registry, a handful of synagogues and other places of worship and one or two (literally) hotels down the country.
You cannot get legally married anywhere else, regardless of who is performing the ceremony. The registrar has to be legally recognised - this includes the clergy. Simply being a clergyman of a religion does not entitle you to perform legal marriages. Governments have been talking about changing this forever, but seeing as there is still a large hunger for traditional weddings in this country, I don't think there's much pressure.

By all means, you can become a minister, and marry people in the name of Hungusness. But they'll still have to go to a registry for it to be legal.

the hunter

so has anyone been ordained yet ????

Sofaspud

I know a Scottish couple who have a bunch of pet stuffed fruitbats, and one of the fruitbats (Sushi) is an ordained minister.

So it can't be that difficult.

koneko

farohar wrote:

Eh, Karl, you do know she still has to say yes don't you? Just because you're allowed to wed people doesn't mean you can marry yourself to that girl you've been stalking without her consent.

Haha! Plan foiled!

Duggy747

Man, I'm going to get ordained for the laugh. Something funny to show off at the pub.

Duggy747

Wayhey, check it out lads. I am now offically ordained!

Basq

Duggy747 wrote:

Wayhey, check it out lads. I am now offically ordained!

Great.... now you can use celibacy as an excuse for your luck (or more appropriately lack of luck) in that department!

Reku

Sofaspud wrote:

I know a Scottish couple who have a bunch of pet stuffed fruitbats, and one of the fruitbats (Sushi) is an ordained minister.

So it can't be that difficult.

So did he wait until before or after he was ordained to let a man give him a good stuffing?:D

Duggy747

basquille wrote:

Great.... now you can use celibacy as an excuse for your luck (or more appropriately lack of luck) in that department!

You're a funny guy Basquille, I like you. That's why I'm gonna kill you last!

It'll be a great excuse for fat goth chicks or ugly girls

User45701

Karl Hungus wrote:

Yeah, but for it to be legally recognised?

a old friend of mine got ordained and then married his sister to her husband

Mr. CooL ICE

User45701 wrote:

got ordained and then married his sister

I had to read your post about 3 times before I actually took notice of the last part of the sentence. Now it makes sense

Louth4sam

o1s1n wrote:

As far as I know, all you have to do is be ordained a minister. Which you can do online for free

http://www.themonastery.org/

Thats what Ian Paisley did Dr of Divinity
I'm sure people know he isnt a real Doctor.

o1s1n

Louth4sam wrote:

Thats what Ian Paisley did Dr of Divinity
I'm sure people know he isnt a real Doctor.

Slight difference between being ordained a minister and given an honourary doctorate.

Zaph

Ian Paisley's doctorate isn't honorary, he paid for it from some US degree mill I believe.

Capt'n Midnight

Don't forget immigration don't accept all foreign marriages.
Too many guys "marry" a south asian for the sex slavery buzz.