can u get legally married to the same person twice without getting divorced first?

I have no idea why you would want to do this. I'm presuming you are ignoring anulments.

You could renew wedding vows, but i fail to see any point at all in registering the marriage twice, it serves no purpose?

lol well its a long story but we basically dont want his family to know we got married already and never told them. yea its a cowards way out to try and register twice but his family are true psychos! any chance its not illegal to register twice? even if it means registering in a different country??
n its bin far too long since we got married to get an annulment unfortunately

Surely if you do it a second time you are just renewing your vows?

Hmmmm interesting

I'm sure there are people who have been in the same situation before, there must be a way around it! Best bet may be to contact a registry office and ask them outright, I'm sure it wont be the first time they have been asked

nah we need the actual marriage certificate - if they see the current one they'll know the date we got married and if we get divorced then re-married we'll have to declare 'divorced' on our form! aahh!! but yea think i'll just ask the registry office.

You sound like a child playing with marriage :/

Just man up and come clean and invite your in-laws to a renewing of your vows? Lie get you nowhere.

Seeing as you're already married it's probably illegal, even if you're marrying the same person. Why do they need to see your marriage certificate?!

ok sounds a but random and crazy i know but is it possible to get register a marriage twice to the same person without getting divorced first with both being registered in england? is it illegal? thanks x

ok sounds a but random and crazy i know but is it possible to get register a marriage twice to the same person without getting divorced first with both being registered in england? is it illegal? thanks x

yea it probably is illegal tbh - think it was just wishful thinking on my behalf lol. hindu priests in the country im from need to see your certificate before they perform the religious ceremony and all these kind of things are done in a stupid asian way in a room full of your entire family and the last thing i would need is for some idiot to notice the date on the cert in front of a room full of people. thanks anyway xx

So the religious ceremony is separate to the legal wedding? I mean, even if you weren't married already would you have a separate civil wedding to make it official legally and then the religious ceremony afterwards?

If that's the case then why not speak to the priest beforehand and explain the situation. Maybe you could just show him the certificate privately before the ceremony. Then the family wouldn't have a chance to see the certificate.

Would it be so bad if they found out you were already married if you're still having the ceremony with them there?

Good luck

You can do it but you have to ask the registrar beforehand to not file the new licence and then you have one to show the in-laws but in the eyes of the law you only married once.