MARRIAGE. CIVIL OR CHURCH
A church wedding is not acknowledged by the government as valid, they insist that it is mandatory to have a civil marriage as per law. Even then the church tries to run a pararell government and is not willing to take up this issue with the authorities and solve the plight of catholics who have to please two masters . One the church who uses its religious authority without legal sanctity and two the govt who gives marriage the legal sanctity. I n the bargain the poor couple is the suffer who has to participate in a wasteful exercise of time and money for the whims and fancies in performing rituals not accepted by the Govt. An unwarranted duplication of events in the name of religion and God.
The only thing goodabout a church marriage is that they have a water tight system in place where in you cant get married for the second time without the church authorities knowledge and consent, wherein a govt marriage there is no cross verification by authorities to find outif youve been married before