I got married semi-recently. For the marriage license, I had to state the name of the person I'd divorced previously, as well as the date of the divorce decree. While Mr flourish and I completed the form together, and both signed it, perhaps other couples only have one person fill it out and both sign? I don't know if all states are the same, anyway.
In any case, I found the wedding blog discussion regarding moving in together just weird. For one, I don't love it when people are all gender role-oriented.
Like, she's all "I don't know how to live with a man!" IDK if she ever resided with her father or a stepfather, but I'm guessing she resided with her first husband so a) who is she trying to fool? b) why is it so important to her to project the image of this squeaky clean, dare I say virginal-esque, image on her wedding blog? Like, she's really acting like this is her first wedding day "like I've imagined for years."
I suppose it's possible, perhaps, that she had a situation like mine, although I kinda doubt it. So, I'm currently married to Mr flourish as I m mentioned. So I've gotten legally married once. However, I've been legally divorced once. How is that? My state had a very old-fashioned but still somewhat recognized common-law statute in place when I began a domestic relationship with Mr evil. The law changed. Mr evil injured our baby, ultimately fatally. I had lawyers (pro-bono- I'll never forget their kindness) who terminated his parental rights. Nobody knew whether or not I needed to legally divorce him, though, so to be on the safe side and have more documentation of our parting, I divorced Mr evil, having not really been married to him in the first place. I don't consider my marriage to Mr flourish to be my "second marriage," but he certainly knew about it before he married me!
For some reason, the wedding blog is sticking in my craw. It just seemed so contrived or something. IMO
Eta: I was so nervous to post because I thought the thread could close and I hate when I lose my post. Also I'm hoping if the wedding blog is off limits and I haven't read that yet, that the mods might just snip and not delete *wishes*