French woman marries dead fiancé

Sad but understandable;

french laws does not recognise legal rights for non married cohabitees, this fudge alowws her to be registered as his widow and be eligible for various benefits. Shows what an ass the law is that people have to jump through these hoops.

Religion

France is a secular republic. Religion makes no difference to her legal status as married & widowed.

So what "many religions recognise" only matters if the bride wants it to. She doesn't, therefore they don't.

a question

If she got married "to a portrait of Jonathan Goerge"...

Was he well hung?

French 10 Mega Pixel Swinger

Knowing that the Frenchmen's virility knows no bounds, could we be in for a photographic booth style divorce case a bit down the road as the fiance/wife/Widow finds the Photo hubby in bed with a photo of Jordan for example.

If she believes the photo is her wedded husband, anything is possible and most times is.

Uncanny order of comments

Three posts expressing the same thought is nothing new. However, the immediate progression of eloquence from Gav to Micky 1 to Davos Summit is, quite simply, priceless.

That's a good thing

Considering they had 2 kids, it's very nice that the French government allowed this to happen--giving her eligibility for his benefits. It's jumping through hoops, but it's not like they can just allow co-habiting couples to have the same benefits as married--that would turn into such a courtroom clusterfuck that you'd never get anything done.

@ Hollerith

"Of course, it depends on what you can do with paper."

Think bog roll and a free hand... although in her case, the bog roll would be for the tears :-(

Pirate icon, although she won't be getting boarded any time soon...

Name

Why is Caput not a good name for a mayor? It means 'head' in Latin and fits just perfectly.

Not much

If you thought the wedding ceremony wasn't much, wait til you hear about the honeymoon.

Suggest that this might occur in the UK

And watch the Daily Mails Melanie Phillips head explode

@replies

> If I remember from my high school RE lessons, many religions don't recognise a marriage

> until it has been consummated.

Erm, they consummated twice. Qouting the article:

| Goerge and Jaskiewicz had been together for five years, and had two young daughters

> Why is Caput not a good name for a mayor? It means 'head' in Latin and fits just perfectly.

The Germans prefer to differ...

Skull and crossbones. Necro at it's strangest.

Not tryng to be a white knight but

I find this kind of sad, it's not really very funny.

Almost completely off topic, but...

in some orthodox christian communities, like those in Romania or Moldova, it is believed, that anyone who dies unmarried, and is at least eight years old at the time of death, will eventually come back as a ghost, or even as a vampire. There is only one way to prevent this: To marry unlucky deceased with somebody who share the same fate, so their spirits can together live happily...errrm....ever after. Hence romanian "Nunta mortului", or "Wedding of the dead".

A bit grisly folk custom, granted, but since no one is hurt....I must assume that being alone for all eternity sucks big time.

And this wedding does not prevent the french lady from marrying someone else in the future.

So, why the heck not.

"He's a dead ringer for your hubby"

Sorry - couldn't resist it.

But surely this content falls foul of Britain's shiny new extreme porn law?

Mine's the coat drenched in formaldehyde