(actual bride our first night here...much better dressed than I will be)
Date: 13th de Abril
Where: Narrowing it down
Facts to marrying in Guatemala:
Step 1 find a man willing to marry you in Guatemala (as opposed to Seattle)
Step 2 test his Spanish skills and make him in charge of all the paperwork to settle things in Guatemala. First we had to provide our passports and birth certificates to Washington State to be "certified". Next we had to send them to the Consulate of Guatemala in San Francisco to be "certified".
Step 3 find lawyer in Guatemala.
Step 4 fly to Guatemala not knowing if anything you brought was correct.
Step 5 place an ad in 2 Guatemalan newspapers announcing the marriage. Currently it is posted in the La Hora de Guatemala and El Diario de Guatemala using our lawyers address should there be any objections. When I asked her yesterday she sadly said no men have come forward...porque¿
Step 6 go to Guatemala City (try not to get robbed) and go to the American Consulate to get a libertad de estado. Meaning we are both free to marry.
Step 7 present all this to the lawyer, with our "gifts" to each other. In our case, the gifts are the rings. This will all be included in the ceremony thus she must have them before, personally had I not met her I´d have thought she was probably going to rob us of our rings...pero no.
The only other thing we know yet is that in Guatemala you must get married sitting down behind a desk. Thus we must find a place where we can haul in a desk and two chairs to sit in. Oh, and legally she can only marry us in Spanish...thus I better start studying what I am about to agree to...what is the translation for "obey and serve" again...?
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