A Las Vegas wedding ???

ciaran76 · 15-07-2005 10:12am #1

Ok , really sorry if this is the wrong place for this thread but i couldn't figure out where the best place to put this thread would be.

Anyway my question is, Does anyone know if you get married in Las Vegas does it count as a proper marrige here in Ireland ? We are having a bit of a debate here in work and i reckon its 50/50 on a vote here. But does anyone know for a fact how it works ?

TIA,

Ciaran

istep · 15-07-2005 10:20am

Yep
got married there on March 4th 1995. Had a great trip ( the wife won $14500 on the slots OMFG! ). We had no probs back here would highly recommend it. There was an issue at the time with inheritance but I think that has been resolved since. For everything else the marriage was recognised here.

county · 15-07-2005 10:23am

did elvis marry you?

seamus · 15-07-2005 10:24am

Yes it does count.
http://www.oasis.gov.ie/relationships/marriage/getting_married_abroad.html

I know a guy who woke up one morning in Vegas married to some random girl and then had to come home and tell his girlfriend about it (!). He didn't remember a thing, all his mates thought it was a great laugh, and he had the cert.
I'm not sure if he ever bothered getting it anulled, the gf eventually broke up with him, and he's a complete moron.

county · 15-07-2005 10:27am

your making that up, right

Gordon · 15-07-2005 10:27am

lol

ciaran76 are you going to marry DeV?

MorningStar · 15-07-2005 10:27am

I got married there too (by Elvis, County). You need to register the marriage here and stuff. I am not aware of any problems but I haven't tried to get divorced

toiletduck · 15-07-2005 10:29am

MorningStar wrote:

I got married there too (by Elvis, County).

Excellent! That would be class!

seamus · 15-07-2005 10:31am

county wrote:

your making that up, right

Me? Nope.

ciaran76 · 15-07-2005 10:36am

Gordon wrote:

lol

ciaran76 are you going to marry DeV?

Who is DeV ?

county · 15-07-2005 10:38am

seamus wrote:

Me? Nope.

thats classic

MorningStar · 15-07-2005 10:50am

toiletduck wrote:

Excellent! That would be class!

It was but you have a wife at the end of it

toiletduck · 15-07-2005 10:53am

^^^^
Lol!

ciaran76 · 15-07-2005 10:53am

Thank you all for the answers. That more or less settles it here. I think I will go get married there then

sprinkles · 15-07-2005 10:58am

Do you have a fiance? I think some of the wedding chapels supply them if you foget to bring one along.

So are you going for elvis or Vader?

istep · 15-07-2005 11:55am

seamus wrote:

Yes it does count.
http://www.oasis.gov.ie/relationships/marriage/getting_married_abroad.html

I know a guy who woke up one morning in Vegas married to some random girl and then had to come home and tell his girlfriend about it (!). He didn't remember a thing, all his mates thought it was a great laugh, and he had the cert.
I'm not sure if he ever bothered getting it anulled, the gf eventually broke up with him, and he's a complete moron.

This can't happen because you need to go to the county courthouse 24 hrs before the marriage to get county cert for the "minister"

istep · 15-07-2005 11:55am

county wrote:

did elvis marry you?

NO .... now wish I had gone the Elvis route tho !!

istep · 15-07-2005 11:59am

ciaran76 wrote:

Thank you all for the answers. That more or less settles it here. I think I will go get married there then

We went to the little chapel of the flowers on the strip ( I kid you not ). The minister gave us a real Blarney sermon " may the road rise up to meet you ... begorrah begosh and all that " and ( this is the best bit ) we got a free t shirt each saying "I got married in the little chapel of the flowers" ... giving the names dates etc !!!

seamus · 15-07-2005 12:17pm

istep wrote:

This can't happen because you need to go to the county courthouse 24 hrs before the marriage to get county cert for the "minister"

Are you sure? Perhaps it's changed since you got married? I'm definitely not lying, but it's possible his mates got a fake cert done up. I know his (ex) girlfriend well, and she wasn't much pleased when he told her

That would be a risky thing to do if he was just taking the piss.

Beruthiel · 15-07-2005 12:41pm

ciaran76 wrote:

Who is DeV ?

only one of your evil overlords

istep · 15-07-2005 1:29pm

seamus wrote:

Are you sure? Perhaps it's changed since you got married? I'm definitely not lying, but it's possible his mates got a fake cert done up. I know his (ex) girlfriend well, and she wasn't much pleased when he told her
That would be a risky thing to do if he was just taking the piss.

Maybe it's changed since .... it's too sweet not to be true !

PullMyFinger! · 15-07-2005 5:33pm

istep wrote:

We went to the little chapel of the flowers on the strip ( I kid you not ). The minister gave us a real Blarney sermon " may the road rise up to meet you ... begorrah begosh and all that " and ( this is the best bit ) we got a free t shirt each saying "I got married in the little chapel of the flowers" ... giving the names dates etc !!!

lol

classic!

netwhizkid · 15-07-2005 5:37pm

Vegas, a place where you can lose what took you thirty years to earn in 30seconds ! Anybody see that film Rat Race man that was funny, Rowan Atkinson as the italian guy, i never laughed so hard. Is it true they also do quickie divorces there ? i know some people who could do with one of those !

Dub13 · 15-07-2005 5:38pm

I got married in Orlando last year....its legal over here as my wife took my name and I took her tax credits,seems like a fair deal to me...:D

A Las Vegas wedding ???

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