"Linda Scheimann" <uscholds@yahoo.com> wrote in message: > > To this day, I don't think it's "law" to record marriages in the sense that > a minister does not need a license to perform a religious ceremony. In New Jersey if a clergyman performs a wedding without a license it is a misdemeanor. You can even get a license for a religious ceremony when there has been a previous civil ceremony, or when the two will be conducted at about the same time. Chuck Wolfram