I Lived in Sin for Six Weeks

Today is my 8th wedding anniversary. It seems like only yesterday that I walked down the aisle of our church and married the man that I love. I was going to get all soppy and tell you how much I love my hubby but I thought it would be more interesting to share a funny story from when we were married.

Our wedding day was much like any other wedding. We exchanged vows, exchanged rings and signed a couple of pieces of paper. We left the church, enjoyed our fabulous wedding reception and went off on our honeymoon in the Maldives.

Little did we know....we were actually not married at all.

After returning from our honeymoon, we started our married life (or so we thought). It soon came time to pick up or marriage certificate so we could go about changing names. We contacted Births, Death and Marriages only to be told there was no record of our marriage. This seemed odd as were were pretty sure we got married. A few phone calls to the minister who married us revealed there really was no marriage certificate. Somehow on the day, we signed the church book, our copy of the certificate but we didn't actually sign the legal documents. We were not legally married!!!

The happy unmarried couple

We quickly gathered some witnesses and headed to the home office of our minister. We entered the dark and dingy room and huddled around the paperwork, quickly signing our names in the hope that we could be married and no one would ever know our dark secret. Ok that was just be being dramatic (although in my memory it did seem a little dodgy). It was only six weeks late and with different witnesses from the ones you will see in the photos but at least we were finally legally married.

Of course, despite not being married in the eyes of the law, we knew we were always married in the eyes of God. I joke about us living in sin (only because I think it is funny) but we were never actually concerned about it. Our wedding day was pretty perfect to us. This story only makes it more fun.

We look so young!

My hubby is now responsible for marrying people at our church. Now he is very careful to make sure married couples sign ALL the paperwork.

Do you have a funny wedding story to share?