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Comment: Is it true that ship's captains can perform weddings?
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Weddings, yes; marriages, no.
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This was used as a plot device in the season of Gilmore Girls I'm watching right now. I was wondering if it was a possibility.
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What is that quoting?
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My sister got married on a cruise ship, and it is law that you have to be married at a port. (This worked out well, since it allowed people who couldn't afford the cruise to still attend the wedding.) I can't remember who performed the wedding, but I think it was just a justice of the peace or something.
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I would think that the reason the captain of a cruise ship can't perform a marriage is bcause the owners of the ship forbid it. Much easier for the owners to do that then to worry about the legality of a marriage. I wonder though if cruise lines (or private ships) have ever considered having their captain(s) get a "mail order" preachers license. I believe that that is pretty much all that is necisary to legally perform marriages in the US. Heck, they could even register the ship in Nevada. ![]() |
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Presumably whoever's law would refuse to recognise the marriage as valid when the couple get home.
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Apparently US law has no provision for marriage on US-flagged ships; marriage is a State matter and marriages performed outside US territories have to be performed under local law. So no marriages on US-flagged ships in international waters, within US consulates, etc. Apparently Bermuda allows marriage at sea, though the officiant (who might or might not be the captain of the vessel) needs to be licensed. |
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I can't even think of a valid reason *why* ship captain's would have been authorized to perform marriages (or be perceived to have that ability, true or not). Military and merchant ships had (save for extraordinary circumstances) exclusively males crews; the only women likely be aboard such ships were officer's wives or paid companionship, none of whom would be in the market for a wedding-at-sea. Couples *might* occasionally marry on passenger ships or liners at sea, but most of those typically carried at least one clergyman of their own.
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This all depends on which nation you want to recognize the marriage.
In Sweden, you have whatever ceremony you want, on a ship or a private ceremony in a canoe. However, the actual official recognition comes when you file it at the tax office with two witnesses. Everything else is just fluff, from a legal perspective. Churches (of various religions) are able to do it as well, but I think they've finally are about to remove that power from them, iirc mainly due to their resistance to same sex marriages. |
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I'm pretty sure it was done on Gilligan's Island as well. IIRC the Skipper performed a ceremony in the lagoon on a raft or something when the Howells found out the person who married them was not licensed.
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It is amazing how much personally relevant news that little coconut radio managed to get isn't it?
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Unfortunately, the Professor didn't carry out the required blood tests, so that marriage wasn't valid either.
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And as an aside, anyone can perform a marriage ceremony in Arkansas. All you need is permission of the quorum court in the county where the ceremony is to be performed. Our youngest socklet is to be married at the end of May, and he chose my best friend (and the best man at our wedding) to "solemnize" the proceedings. BB "wasn't this in Gai-Jin?" &S |
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My sister is a Bank Vice President in Florida. She needed to become a Notery Public. In Florida a Notery can legally perform marriages.
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A quick google says all Royal Caribbean's ships are registered in the Bahamas. Does Bahamian law forbid captains from performing marriages? |
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In the case of cruise ships it's likely that some captains may have obtained whatever credentials they need in order to perform marriages, but they don't necessarily have that ability solely by virtue of being ship's captains.
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Perhaps it's time to have a real captain and a "show captain"? The real captain handles the ship, the rest does stuff for the tourists, such as marriages.
Much like many monarchies today work. We have a parliament and a prime minister who has the real power, and a king/queen to keep the tourists happy. |
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