If I promise myself to you from my heart, can we now say we are married?
If two people make a promise to each other, would that be considered a marriage in God's eyes?
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A man and a woman are married if they decide they are married. They are legally married if they present themselves in public as husband and wife. A wedding record in a family bible is acceptable evidence of marriage in any court in the country.
Then we have a corporation also called marriage, a three way union of a man, a woman, and the state for the purpose of making babies. that is how the state claims jurisdiction over children. The state is one third owner of the corporation that made them.
Recently, confused people have invented a third kind of marriage, a situation that used to be called "room mates". We have yet to see how that will work out.