Weddings in France

[Bradypus]

Saw some other french members around, maybe them or new others would like to think about it. Or maybe some of you could come here and fell in love, who knows... Evidences are it happened a lot and may happen again.

So here things are simple : state must not give a shit about church of any kind. Which is good for several reasons.
So far religions don't behave as sects (which is clearly described by local and European laws) they can do wathever they want.

Your marriage as been made in front of a monk or the pope ? Good, have you wrote down and both signed your contract in 3 parts ? Perfect, take the line and it will become true for others administrations too.

So people often do 2 weddings : one in town hall, the other in church. Or just town hall.

But it was kind of unfair for people not willing to get married, or being same sex and needing as anyone else to have same rights in front of law than married people. So we got the "civilian pact of solidarity" (PACS), still functional even if gays can get married now.

If you really want to get married you can do it but it wont be possible to make a dudeist celebration at same time. Cause you need to go to town hall to do it and no religion has to interact there during the event.

PACS pact is cool thing, you write the contract, you sign it, you give it to the town hall / lawyer or some other guy in charge to deal with the administration, and there it is, it gives you almost same legal rights than marriage. No mayor or elected representative needed. So you can sign it during the dudeist office. Plus if things go wrong any of the "PACSed" can break the deal, without the need of any lawyer. I wish marriages would be more like PACS...

IMO Dudeist PACS ceremonies are a great way to live make exactly the same of a wedding, in a cooler way, without absolutely no legal restriction, no special persons to get rendez-vous with, specific places to go, for the ceremony at least it's total freedom. Just needs to fill properly papers and drop them to the right guy and pay some imaginary administrative costs.