Weddings Part IIAttending a wedding is like being handed a licence to act like a twat. Oh how I laughed when I sobered up and realised I'd nicked most of the plates and cutlery from the posh hotel lunch and those vague memories of stealthily exiting like a cat-burglar had in fact involved falling out of the hotel, knives and forks clattering onto the steps.
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chthonic, Mon 3 Nov 2014, 18:10)
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Oh, I fucked up someones wedding once. Kind of.Our neighbour in Brazil's daughter married an English guy. We were invited to the wedding as we were friends of the Mum, and (I suspect more importantly to them) both spoke English and Portuguese and were handy translators.
Before we went, my wife says to me 'Actually, they already got married in England, in a registry office last month. This is just for the Brazilians to celebrate it'.
So, mingling around, ended up talking to the groom and his (English) parents who had traveled over for the wedding.
'So Phil' I said. 'Nice of you to do all this for the Brazilians. Do they know you already got married in the UK last month?'.
Phil suddenly looks shifty. His Mum looks puzzled. His Dad, after a slight pause says 'I doubt it. They didn't fucking tell us either'.
Oops.
I mentioned this to my wife, as I casually sauntered away and left Phil to his hissing parents.
'Oh yeah', she says. 'Forgot to say - don't tell anyone they're already married'.
(, Fri 7 Nov 2014, 15:52, 5 replies)
Weirdly, being married in the UK isn't recognised in BrazilHence they *weren't* actually married.
So when I'm there, technically I'm single -- a fact that I always point out to my wife when surrounded by bikini-clad beach-bunnies...
(, Fri 7 Nov 2014, 17:15, closed)
What are you on about?Yeah it is.
(, Fri 7 Nov 2014, 17:50, closed)
You have to go through some registration process to have it recognisedat least in order to renew a passport, anyway.
(, Mon 10 Nov 2014, 11:23, closed)
I think that works both ways.Not sure what exactly the issue was, but my Brazilian wife had some extra hoops to jump through to get her resident visa, that she wouldn't have had to do if we had been married in the UK.
It definitely isn't a straight swap, although as far as rights to property / kids etc work, civil law would trump any lack of paperwork anyway.
(, Mon 10 Nov 2014, 11:39, closed)
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