Heidi And Spencer Are Big, Fat Liars... OK, Skinny Liars
Posted at 2:02 PM Nov 26, 2008
By Kenny Herzog
Thanks to the Huffington Post, who opted to go slightly beyond our morally and spiritually defeated kvetching and actually investigate the details of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's supposed eloping/definitive Us Weekly raping, the likelihood of their nuptials being a legally unrecognizable farce has crystallized.The Us photo spread has the standard allotment of wedding-gown pics and what have you, in addition to their vows (don't tell me the performed reading of those suckers wouldn't make for a satirical off-Broadway hit), but apparently there's no proof that they got a marriage license or took part in a civil ceremony, not to mention California doesn't recognize marriages outside of the U.S. And certainly not in their hot, dusty neighbor to the south, Mexico.
Of course, the fact that they could grab national headlines for staging a fake marriage is somehow more maddening than if they had tied the knot for real and launched a subsequent self-indulgent press campaign. So you win again, Speidi, but I assure you, vengeance of some kind will rear its Hills-crashing head, no matter how long it takes me, or how far I must travel! (Well, as long as it doesn't involve leaving my couch, but lots of other magical things have happened here.)
Comments
California, and the US government's immigration service, certainly did recognize my marriage in Mexico. As long as Mexican law is followed, a civil ceremony in any city hall in front of the appropriate official and requisite number of witnesses, it is legal in Mexico, and equally legal in the US.
Posted 11/30/2008 at 06:51:47 PMThere is sometimes a misunderstanding of this. Marriges in Mexico fall under federal statute and are required before a couple (no gays need apply) can have a "proper" church ceremony.
However, getting your best friend to obtain a ULC ordination and dashing to Baja with him or with her to tie the knot, will get you nowhere legally, because the exercise does not meet the requirements of the Federal Government of Mexico, thus will not be recognized here either.