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Marriage After Graduation!!
Hello my name is Shelly and i have so many questions about getting married. Today i got a 20 min phone call from my Fiance. We were planning on getting married after he was finished with his 2 weeks in A school, but in the call he wants to get married on his graduation day! I asked him if it was going to be okay because i know the navy frowns upon that happening but he said they can't stop him. So of course now i am left to figuring out how to go about all this. I live in California. 6 states away from Illinois. If there is someone out there that has been through this can you please help me out. I know that i have to get a licenses before we can get married and then we have to wait 24 hours but we dont have 24 hours. I only have 3 weeks. And i am stressing out Haha.
Anything will Help
Thanks
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Permalink Reply by autibug on
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I am going through the same thing with my fiancee. We also want to get married on his graduation day but we are trying to figure out how to do that. I am trying to research the laws in Illinois and see what they are. In Utah you can get your license and get married 5 minutes later! We already have someone who will marry us just not the license.
Here is a website of the county that Great Lakes is located in and the laws and regulations.
http://countyclerk.lakecountyil.gov/VitalRecords/Pages/Marriage-Lic...
Do you have someone to marry you? Where is your SR going to A-school? If it is Great Lakes they will have Liberty all weekend. If it is out of state they sometimes have Liberty Saturday morning before they fly out. If you had someone to marry you you could do it Saturday morning.
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Permalink Reply by abuon18 on
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Just know that if you decide to do this he can get into REALLY big trouble.
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Well they have done nothing but lie to me and my fiancee so what can they really do? They told us we couldn't get married before he left and now they say we can't get married now that he is graduating? How can they legally really stop us from getting married?
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Permalink Reply by Jenn_NicksWifey on
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This is just my opinion, but they probably wanted you to wait because a lot of spouses leave their Sailor during bootcamp and A School. My husband is in A School and all of his married shipmates (that he knows) are now separated or facing divorce. They probably see it a lot, especially with younger recruits. Maybe they figure if you can get through 8 weeks of no communication you have a better chance.
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They can't legally stop you but he will have consequences for not following procedure.
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Permalink Reply by lovecmilk (ship11div332) on
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I agree, its not just about the states laws, its about navy procedures to. Either way, i dont know why everyone around me is rushing to get married. It's only a piece of paper. If your together, your together. Why rush and risk him getting in trouble?
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The law in IL is that you have to get a marriage license and wait until the next day to get married. I live in IL and we got married in March before he went in. He is supposed to get permission from his CO to get married. I'm not sure what the consequences are, but its not a good way to start a new career. If his A School is only 2 weeks, its likely that the paperwork won't be done before his orders are issued, so the Navy won't pay to move you anyway. My suggestion is to wait that few extra weeks until he gets to his next command, gets permission, then get married and then you can apply for housing and whatnot. He's probably going to get orders without you on them anyway, so you're going to have to go back to CA alone and wait until he gets to the next station anyway. The only real difference is going to be whether he gets disciplinary action or not. I know how bad it sucks to be without him, and i know how much you want the time to fly. If there was anything you could do to be with him sooner, you would, but getting married without permission isn't going to accomplish that. It may affect how fast they put the paperwork through to get your housing approved, too, if he pisses people off.
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Permalink Reply by Kyla-PIR Oct 5, Ship 11, DIV 320 on
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You should definitely let me know how this goes, my boyfriend graduates on October 5th and we want to get married that Saturday morning but are worried about consequences. But part of me thinks it might be worth it. lol.
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Oh my gosh crazy! haha. well then nevermind and best of luck to the both of us haha
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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haha yeah i know. the thing is i really dont think he cares if he makes any one mad at him and he is death set on it so i have no clue what i am going to do haha
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Thats exactly how my sailor feels. haha. i don't want him to start off bad but i don't want to be continually pushed back until the navy says we can get married. haha.
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