Notice of marriage

liv, of Dreamwidth, (formerly livredor of LiveJournal) intends to marry jack, also of Dreamwidth, (also known as cartesiandaemon, of LiveJournal) on 29^th February 2012 in Cambridge Register Office.

You have 15 days to present any formal legal objections to this marriage, (although you might have to do some work since I don't use my documented name here, and the registry office hasn't yet learned about internet usernames).

Valid objections are:

• We made the classic folksong mistake of not finding out before it's too late that we're actually close blood relatives.
• We made the classic SF mistake of spending too much time hanging around memory altering devices or travelling faster than light, and one of us is already married to someone else but has erased all memory of this.
• We made the classic internet mistake of creating false personas and spending many years convincing people to believe in them, and we're not who we say we are.
• We made the classic romance novel mistake of trying to force an unwilling partner into marriage for nefarious reasons.

Invalid objections are: anything else, particularly anything along the lines of "it should have been me". If that's the case, I would say it's mostly your fault for not speaking up sooner, (with one or two exceptions who did ask but wanted to marry me on terms I couldn't accept).

And yes, I will post something similar using our offline names, but I don't want to link those to my journal. The names are also on a noticeboard tucked away in the depths of Hanley Town Hall, but honestly I don't think anybody in this city knows me well enough to know of any potential objections. And even if they did I can't imagine they would go and look at the noticeboard in the depths of the town hall, so this seems a singularly inefficient way of "publishing" a notice to marry.

Note that we actually intend to celebrate our wedding on 20^th May; this is just the legal formalities. We're considering providing some opportunities to object to the emotionally meaningful part of the wedding too, but we haven't quite worked out the logistics of how to do that, because that's the part we're making up as we go along.