How To Have A Lawful Wedding

How to Have a Lawful Wedding
by Erin Eileen Ann O’Donnell©
Lucy Claudia Call Whinnery© and Isaac Thomas Ayres©

Joined in Lawful Marriage on Sunday, the 3rd of October in the year 2021
on Delaware, Ohio
My daughter, Lucy, and her husband, Isaac, wanted to begin their life together without contracting with the
government or ask permission to get married. So, together we created a path for them to have a lawful
wedding. No one in the Ohio Assembly Land and Soil Jurisdiction had experience a lawful wedding, so we
figured out how to do one using the principles of self-governance, Anna’s writings, and the Instructions for the
Solemn Record and Proclamation of Marriage. See https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org/marriage-
paperwork/
Bouvier’s Law Dictionary 1856 edition https://constitution.org/1-Constitution/bouv/bouvier_m.htm :

“The common law requires no particular ceremony to the valid celebration of marriage. The consent of the
parties is all that is necessary, and as marriage is said to be a contract jure gentium, that consent is all that is
needful by natural or public law.”
Here’s our 10 Step process for How to Have a Lawful Wedding.
1. The Bride and Groom each correct their status.
a. Remember, United States Citizens/U.S. Citizens/citizens of the United States must ask for
permission to do anything, thus the “requirement” to apply for a Marriage License.
b. Americans don’t need permission. Isaac and Lucy wanted to ensure their right to get married
without asking for permission.
c. On Isaac’s 21st birthday he came home to the Land and Soil by completing his 1779 Declaration
and 2 Witness Testimonies and put them on the public record by publishing them on the LRS.
d. Lucy won’t be 21 until February 2022, so she can’t do her 1779 and 2 Witness Testimonies until
then. Her father and I each corrected our statuses earlier in 2021 and did a Baby Deed on her,
put in on the public record by publishing it on the LRS, took out an ad in our local paper (yes, 20
years after the fact, but better late than never!), and sent a copy of the recorded Baby Deed to
the Secretary of State of Ohio (State she was born on).
2. Choose your officiant.
a. An officiant is simply someone who conducts a religious or civil ceremony.
b. You can use a licensed/ordained officiant if you wish. Totally up to you.
c. On the Land and Soil, they do not have to be licensed or ordained because living people are
individual sovereigns and therefore do not ask for permission to be able to marry someone.
d. You simply need a wo/man of honor who is willing to lead you in your vows.
e. The authority to declare two people husband and wife comes not by licensing or ordainment, but
by witnessing the vows taken by the man and woman.
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f. Lucy and Isaac asked Lucy’s grandpa (my dad) to perform the ceremony. He is not ordained or
licensed, but he is an elder in our faith (Christianity).
g. They explained to him that they wanted a lawful wedding, not a legal one, which meant they
wouldn’t be applying for a marriage license or registering their marriage with the State of Ohio/
STATE OF OHIO. He agreed to perform the ceremony on the conditions that we provide
instructions for a lawful wedding, and that it be a Christian ceremony.
3. Determine the venue and type of ceremony.
a. Lucy and Isaac chose an old church that had been converted into a venue, and decided they
wanted a traditional Christian wedding.
b. This allowed them to have the charm and beauty of an old church building, and keep the
traditions of our Christian faith, but not have the regulations of an official church organization.
c. Not using an organized church, an ordained minister or Justice of the Peace meant no one was
worried about a marriage license.
d. Lucy and Isaac wrote their own vows.
e. My dad looked up the order and wording for a traditional Christian wedding online.
f. I gave him Anna’s article #1833 Lawful Marriage vs Legal Marriage
http://annavonreitz.com/lawfulmarriage.pdf
g. The one thing he couldn’t figure out was how to pronounce them husband and wife.
h. Using article #1833 and the instructions for the Solemn Record and Proclamation of Marriage,
we chose to use the verbiage: “And now, according to the law of Scripture and in keeping with
the traditions of our faith, I pronounce you husband and wife.”
4. Pick your 2 Witnesses.
a. Lucy and Isaac chose her father and me because of our American State National status. This
avoided having to explain to anyone what the witnesses need to do and why they weren’t doing
a marriage license.
b. Anyone over 21 who attends the wedding can serve as a witness on the Proclamation. They do
not have to be status corrected. It just makes it easier to get the document signed and thumb
printed if they are.
5. Get the following items before the wedding and be sure to take all of them with you to the
ceremony:
a. At least six (6) copies of the Solemn Record and Proclamation of Marriage. (See instructions for
that document.)
b. Red ink pad
c. Red ink pen
d. Blue ink pen
e. Baby wipes (to clean thumbs)
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6. As soon as the ceremony is over, and before going to the reception, have the 2 witnesses and
the officiant autograph each of the printed documents. (See instructions for who gets one of the
autographed originals.)
7. After the honeymoon, create 2 Cover Sheets, 1 for the bride and 1 for the groom. (See Lucy and
Isaac’s cover sheets)
8. Send the 2 Cover Sheets and 1 Autographed Original Proclamation to your Recording Secretary
to put on the public record by publishing on the LRS or LRO.
a. This is to be a joint recording which means there is only 1 Recording Number used for 2
separate publishings. 1 under the Bride’s name and 1 under the Groom’s name.
b. See Lucy and Isaac’s documents for reference.
9. Get a Geneva Bible and begin the family record.
a. Part of my wedding present to my children is a Geneva Bible for recording life events for their
new family.
b. I couldn’t find a reasonably priced Geneva Bible that had Family Record pages in it, so I created
my own pages via WORD. I printed them on lightweight card stock, cut them to fit, and taped
them onto the blank pages of the Bible using acid-free double-sided tape. (See attached photos)
10. Educate and Inform
a. Using the Solemn Record and Proclamation of Marriage and Geneva Bible in place of a
marriage license will be easier for some people and in some places than others.
b. In addition to doing the Solemn Record and Proclamation of Lawful Marriage, you also have the
right to get a marriage license if you want one. It may make it easier for you to do both. You will
have to research and decide for your own purposes what is best for you.
c. Lucy and Isaac have chosen to use only the Solemn Record and Proclamation and the Geneva
Bible as their proof of marriage.
d. While Isaac is currently serving in the military, he and Lucy do not want her to be a dependent
and therefore they’re not going to access the increased pay or try to get her on his health
insurance.
e. They are choosing right now to maintain as much sovereignty as possible, even if it means
money is a little tighter, and they use different health insurance for her.
f. Their parents work for themselves and pay for all their own insurance, so it is not foreign to
either of them to do the same.
g. You can list anyone you wish as beneficiary on your life insurance policy. You do not need to
prove relationship.
h. You can open bank accounts with anyone you wish. You do not need to prove relationship. Be
sure to grant each other right of survivorship on all your accounts.
i. Some employers and health insurance companies will accept the Solemn Record and Geneva
Bible as proof of marriage. Some will not.
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by Erin Eileen Ann O’Donnell©

Lucy Claudia Call Whinnery© and Isaac Thomas Ayres©

Bouvier’s Law Dictionary 1856 edition https://constitution.org/1-Constitution/bouv/bouvier_m.htm :

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