House of D'outh
SO YOU WANT TO HAVE A WEDDING CIVIL CEREMONY
But first, what the hell is a marriage even?
According to my understanding (and compilation from things that I have read up on it), the "legal" purpose of a marriage is as follows:
- to establish each other as the legal parent of your partner’s children (assuming if you have any or adopt any)
- to have monopoly in your partner's sexuality (ie: monogamy)
- to have some rights to your partner's domestic and other labour services (eg: "COOK ME DINNER NOW! CLEAN THE FLOOR NOW! HELP ME MOVE THIS HEAVY BOX!")
- to give your partner control over property belonging or potentially accruing to your partner (ie:
- to establish a joint fund of property - which may be for the benefit of both of you and any resulting children (economic partnership)
The marriage certificate is a paper which thus says that it can be legally 'enforced' if
But why do we require the law or the state to come in to ratify our partnership?
If we had to think of it in an old fashioned sense, perhaps community recognition (and family support) of this private agreement between individuals is what qualified unions as marriages. However, even then I do not feel that we do this civil ceremony.
CEREMONY
What is a wedding? INTERNET DICTIONARY SAYS: "A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage." I wish to design a ceremony for ourselves.
