Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 27, 2011

Desk with lawyers at the church…. what is the world coming to?

The groom gets it right. Get clarifications before he agrees to give up his freedoms.

Is that a Priest or a Negotiator?

I love how the little girl holding the bridal veil/trail (?) is the one who has coloring, aside from the light outside the window.

When money is involved the lawyer sharks smell blood. You won’t find poor people wasting time with solicitors and prenups!

The pre-nuptials.

Then it’s “adios, amigos!”

And that, my friends, is the State of the Union.

I am sure that she won’t forget to add in the honey-do list.

Arbitration 101.

I’m sooo angry. Please help me get NonSequiter back in the paper in Denver. email comics@denverpost.com and tell these fools to come to their senses.

i liked how they did it in SABRINA (w/Bogart and Hepburn)…

My lawyer called a pre-nup a pre-divorce.

Funny!

Call it a civil union, partnership or whatever, but a “Marriage” is between one man and one woman.

Honor and obey?! Sounds like something a man would write, because it is. A person has to earn respect, which may then lead into something like ‘honoring’ them, but unless you are suffering from low self esteem, and a lack of self worth, you don’t just hand over honor and respect to someone, just because a silly marriage vow says to do so. Obey is something a dog is trained to do for it’s owner.

@plus4- I married my first husband in Germany after he was assigned there before I was out of school, and the wedding was planned for the next fall. We had a civil ceremony as required by the German government, and a wedding ceremony in the base chapel. So, having both is common in other countries.

Oddly (and completely unintentionally — as our practiced vows did not include “obey”, but DID include"honor") I did NOT say “honor and obey”… but HE did. Poor guy. (Trust me — he HAS ‘suffered’ for this mistake a time or two.)One marriage (for both of us) and he’s still stuck with me and my sense of ‘humor’… imagine the pain. (!)Apparently… he’s a “keeper” (can’t get rid of him!), and I guess that makes me a “keeper” too. Lucky (honestly, honestly lucky) me.So. I wish “keeperness” on all of you. May you all be so blessed… and occasionally, humiliated as you go through the rituals of life. If nothing else, they make for good stories.Live good. Honor the people around you… always. Obey? Not so much… but cut them some slack, too.

A rather large number of European countries have both.

@dogsniffOnly one thing to say about your comment:

GROAAAAN

Oh, SPARE me.

Shouldn’t the grooms lawyer be saying that?

Wait until they discover the joys of divorce — as some have already done in other states where they are allowed to marry. Careful what you ask for.

It was interesting to see that Phillip and his bride went to chambers to deal with “matters”.

When there are conditions before the wedding gets started .. it means it’s going to be "a dark and stormy night.

Deserved!

My husband I got married twice – once at the Mayor’s office and, 4 months later had a “religious” blessing of that marriage for all the relatives. Funny – THAT day was Friday the 13th! (Right after,. he came down with shingles!! – No lie!)