Would you get an "internet ordination" if a friend or relative wanted you to marry them?

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Yup, get online, and get ordained. It's legal. So if a loved one wanted you to marry them, would you do it- would you get an internet ordination? Maybe you don't want to preach, but marrying people????? Or maybe you even thought about getting "ordained", and performing marriages as a business, or for fun.

https://www.themonastery.org/landin...ernet +ordination&utm_content=Ordained Online
 

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My son and daughter-in-law were married by a college friend after she got an online ordination. Many jokes were made at the reception about a Pakistani immigrant of Hindu descent presiding over a Christian wedding.
 
My daughter and her husband had one of their friends get ordained that way so that she could marry them. They paid the fee for her plus all her travel expenses to and from the wedding.

If someone offered that deal to me I'd do it if the wedding was in a cool place that I would like to go. But if it wasn't somewhere I would like to go, I'd just tell them to go down to the courthouse and get hitched.
 

My sister got an online ordination in order to marry my niece and her husband. This was also my sister`s niece-not her own daughter.

My grandson and granddaughter in law were married by a man they had both known their entire lives. He also got an online ordination. He was a tenant of ours in a duplex we owned when our grandson was born. My daughter,SIL and grandson lived on one side and this man and his family lived on the other. He was a Deputy Sheriff back then,but later became the head of the local Highway Patrol office. So my grandson knew him his entire life and his wife`s family was long time friends of his so granddaughter in law also knew him her entire life. It was pretty special,really.
 
I'm ordained. I used to marry couples, change, and then my band played their receptions. Helluva hustle. I started back up, a few years ago, performing marriages. Things were going great, and then the calls just stopped. Very strange. No bad online reviews, nothing. I didn't bother pushing it. I figured The Cosmos was telling me to stop. I gave great sermons, any religion desired. I kind of miss it, but, oh well.
 
Never heard of such a thing. We do have civil celebrants who are licenced to perform marriages, naming ceremonies and funerals, Such ceremonies are secular events and not permitted to be imitations of religious ones. All ordained members of recognised religions are automatically permitted to perform marriages that are lawfully recognised by the state. This now extends to same sex couples.
 
jujube said:
I used to be a Notary Public, which allowed me, in Florida, to perform weddings. I was all excited about performing a friend's wedding, but a little problem about her divorce (or in this case, lack of therein) put the kibosh on the wedding at the last minute.

Bummer.
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I am a notary but would never perform a marriage. Just not my thing.
 
C'est Moi said:
In Texas we have common law marriage. I'd just tell 'em to tell people they are married and get on with life. (Big savings on that ceremony thing.)
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I’m 30 years married by common law.
We didn’t wish to squander the money merely to make family and friends happy.
Plus nobody earned the right to walk me down the isle. 🤐
 
As I understand the law>>>>>> (dying on the floor laughing). It's the couple, who legally "contacts" the marriage with the " I do"s (Do you take. etc...........), The "minister" testifies/ notarizes that the couple legally contracted the marriage in front of him.
Hopefully there are better lawyers than me in the forum.
 
It makes my wonder why people bother getting "married" at all. If you are willing to be bound by someone that has simply paid a fee on the internet and that is their only qualification to perform marriage ceremonies, why even go through the rigmarole? If they obviously don't care about religious conventions, why go through a performance?
 
I'm all about legality and the legality here would depend on the state laws where the participants live. A 'marriage' that is not recognized and recorded by the state is known as a common law marriage. Been around forever and work fine until court problems arise where legality is an issue.

An interesting example of different state laws: the state of Pennsylvania offers licenses for and recognizes something called a Quaker Marriage known as the silent ceremony. There is no officiant , no giving away. The ceremony consists of a declaration before at least two witnesses, the signing of a wedding certificate and a long period of silent, open worship. It is legal through the state's 'self-uniting' law and allows couples to legally marry themselves.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
As I understand the law>>>>>> (dying on the floor laughing). It's the couple, who legally "contacts" the marriage with the " I do"s (Do you take. etc...........), The "minister" testifies/ notarizes that the couple legally contracted the marriage in front of him.
Hopefully there are better lawyers than me in the forum.
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You are correct, but there must be certain common elements in the ceremony for the union to be legally recognised. For a start, there must be consent and the celebrant must be satisfied that both participants are free to marry by virtue of age and marital status. The celebrant is also responsible for the paperwork and registration of the union.
 


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