From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:54:37 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Just looking at my maternal grandparents' wedding certificate (William   
   >Weightman to Mary Haley, 1927-10-1, Bedlington, Northumberland [St.   
   >Cuthberts]).   
   >   
   >It's the usual "I, ... do hereby certify that this is a true copy of the   
   >Entry No ... in the Register Book of Marriages of the said Church.",   
   >although it _is_ dated the same day, i. e. it isn't a copy made later.   
   >   
   >I notice the signatures are different writing to both that elsewhere on   
   >the copy and to each other, so it looks likely Grandma and Granddad (and   
   >the Witnesses - they're different too) signed it.   
   >   
   >I just wondered if it was common for the couple to sign both the   
   >register and at least one of the copies. (I'm guessing it was the copy   
   >for their own use, as I have it - the actual piece of paper I mean -   
   >from among Grandma's papers.)   
      
   I'm not all that surprised that it may happen if the  "copies" are   
   ready to hand  and otherwise completed - and there's no pressure of   
   time for any of the parties,   
      
   It did not happen at my wedding, nor at either wedding of someone I   
   asked (who married in Spain and then again in England, because the   
   English groom wanted paper-work in his own language and the cost of a   
   cicil wedding was comparable with that of a certified translation).   
      
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