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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
It's a license to get certain legal benefits. Al you need to be married is to believe you are, but you gotta do the paperwork to get the rights associated.
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Not in PA or MA (I haven't gotten married in any other states yet). The license just means you've cleared the hurtle of convincing the state(county?) that you can legally marry, such as you bothered to get a divorce after the last one and had your rabies tests.
Then with license in hand you have to have a clergy, Justice of the Peace, Judge or some other person with the power vested by the state, actually do the deed. Otherwise your not legally entitled to all those wonderful benefits, like the marriage tax penalty and divorce court
No matter what they tell you, bellhops, bartenders and river ferry captains, can't.
