Heh. Undermining the sanctity of the family unit! Really I guess it just means that if we ever make any legal declaration about each other, and we use the words "husband" and "wife", any other party who wants to can cause us legal headaches because by law we're not allowed to use those words. It's a stupid rule but because it's there it can be used!
Also, we couldn't use the words "husband" and "wife" in the formal parts of the ceremony - if we had, then legally the ceremony wouldn't have been performed properly and our celebrant wouldn't have signed off. It's that level of silliness.
Anyway, it's turned out to be quite a neat mental exercise. We actually quite like that we don't have social roles to fall into/rebel against, and instead we can make up our own...
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Date: 2009-07-28 12:11 pm (UTC)Also, we couldn't use the words "husband" and "wife" in the formal parts of the ceremony - if we had, then legally the ceremony wouldn't have been performed properly and our celebrant wouldn't have signed off. It's that level of silliness.
Anyway, it's turned out to be quite a neat mental exercise. We actually quite like that we don't have social roles to fall into/rebel against, and instead we can make up our own...