Do we need to have a wedding within 90 days or is a legal marriage sufficient?

[PrincessButtercup 4]

I'm finding the direction of this thread somewhat entertaining.

Before I found VJ, I followed the message boards at theknot.com. There are about 67 pages of arguing about whether it is socially acceptable to have a "wedding" after you are legally "married". They call it a "Pretty Princess Day" (PPD for short)- this is actually where my user name came from (ie The Princess Bride)

Immigration doesn't really care what you do, just as long as you are legally married within 90 days. If it's really important to you to have a wedding party later on to celebrate with family- by all means go for it! Heavens knows we all deserve to celebrate our love after all this! (And be sure to take plenty of pictures for future evidence of a continuing marriage )

Let's just please leaving the arguing over the sublties of the words "marriage" and "wedding" to theknot.com... We have bigger issues

[kehills 217]

It's actually not subtle, that's the point.

Read around the forums. There are people who have had what they thought were non-legal wedding parties without having a legal marrying, and have had their K-1 VISA denied because they're considered married enough to not qualify for a K-1, even if they're not married enough for a CR-1.

This isn't a Knot-style hair-splitting.

[Mollie09 1,543]

"wed·ding

noun, often attributive \ˈwe-diŋ\

: a ceremony at which two people are married to each other"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wedding