Difference between revisions of "Getting Married in British Columbia"
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===You can get married in a religious or civil ceremony=== | ===You can get married in a religious or civil ceremony=== | ||
You can have a religious or civil marriage ceremony, or both. The person performing the ceremony must be licensed to perform marriages [https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/laws/stat/rsbc-1996-c-282/latest/rsbc-1996-c-282.html under the provincial | You can have a religious or civil marriage ceremony, or both. The person performing the ceremony must be licensed to perform marriages [https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/laws/stat/rsbc-1996-c-282/latest/rsbc-1996-c-282.html under the provincial Marriage Act]. For civil ceremonies, this person is known as a '''marriage commissioner'''. For religious ceremonies, they are known as a religious official. | ||
Not all religious officials are licensed under the ''Marriage Act''. If you want, you can first be married in a civil ceremony. Then you can have a religious ceremony. If you do that, it doesn’t matter if the religious official is licensed to perform marriages because you’ll already be legally married. | Not all religious officials are licensed under the ''Marriage Act''. If you want, you can first be married in a civil ceremony. Then you can have a religious ceremony. If you do that, it doesn’t matter if the religious official is licensed to perform marriages because you’ll already be legally married. | ||