So I have been reading all of the other JOP/religious ceremony later posts and am getting a bit discouraged. But I feel like my FI and I have a little bit different situation.
He is leaving for marine boot camp in May, after both of our college graduations. He then has 10 days break after bootcamp, and then has to report to combat training for 1 month. After that, he has to report straight up to Washington DC, and we will not know when he will get time off again. We want to have a traditional wedding, and I do not want to move up to DC with him until we are married. We planned that we would get married in the 10 day break between camps, however it seems that marriage licences expire after 60 days (his boot camp is 91days), so if we got the licence before, it will be invalid by ceremony time. We were thinking that we could just sign marriage papers/fill out all military documentation and be legally married before he leaves for bootcamp and then be "officially" married during the 10 day period over summer. I don't think we would tell anyone that we are actually married except our parents. My uncle is going to perform the marriage and is ex military, he would understand as well. Is this still a huge problem? Do you think a church would still allow us to have a ceremony with a cert. of marriage instead of a license?
so confused...