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Originally Posted by ann ashtray
I wouldn't need a ceremony (religious or non) in order to demonstrate to someone, or even worse their family, that I love them and want to be with them for whatever time remains of my life.
To ashtray, you don't need a ceremony, and getting married is not about the ceremony. To some people, the ceremony is important as a symbolic act, but that's all it is, symbolic. The ceremony is not the marriage, and it's not proving to somebody that you love them and will be faithful etc. It's a way of commemorating your getting married, of celebrating getting married.


Nothing wrong with a little celebrating.