Over the past fifteen years in business I have been asked many times “Sam, how did you get into the business of helping people getting married and just what is a Proxy Marriage?”

It was actually quite by accident. My late wife, Barbara, was very interested in-the topic of “marriage” so I would look for interesting things to share with her. One day, while surfing the Internet, I came across an interesting article in a Montana newspaper. It was a story about parents living in Montana who had a son serving in the Military in Iraq, while his pregnant fiancee” resided in Italy. The son wanted to do the right thing” and get married. However, they were thousands of miles apart and could not get married in the traditional way.

In Montana, it is legal for two people to be married to one another without either party having to physically appear at the marriage bureau. This is called a legal double proxy marriage. The father legally stood in for his son, and his wife stood in for the absent bride. The court issued a Legal Marriage Certificate and there was a Happy Ending! The bride was able to receive all of the military medical benefits and everyone had peace of mind. The wife later joined her husband at his next duty station.