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LadyConstanze -> RE: Slavery and Profit... (2/16/2014 4:10:23 AM)
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We both don't have children, we own the company together, so there are just some technicalities that made things a bit more complicated, for example when we changed something with the company, we had to update the wills, when I was for months at a time in the US and one of the pets needed surgery, I had to fax permission as they were in my name and we weren't married, now something could always happen, he might be abroad or I might be abroad, power of attorney is not limitless but always has to be specified for what, all those little hurdles just disappear with that piece of paper stating you are legally a couple. Also with me going to the US a lot, they tend to prefer it if you're married since they have the absurd idea any unmarried woman will grab the next American man and marry him to be able to live in the US (they obviously don't get out a lot).
I don't think we rushed into it, we knew each other for 10 years and had lived together for 6 or 7 years, it was a simple choice to make our lives easier and reduce a bunch of time consuming and annoying paperwork. We didn't have much bells and whistles, 2 friends as witnesses, no flowers, no rings, just "Where do we sign?" then we went to the pub for a quick drink. I think we spent the rest of the day working. The funny thing was that the registry office had moved to the town hall and we were the 1st or 2nd couple there to get married, and they were hoping for something a bit more elaborate, kept asking us if we want special vows, to say a poem, if anybody wants to sing, how we'd like the ring exchange (long faces when we told them "no rings, just keep it very simple and let's get it over with")
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