~>  EH> Where on earth do they perform proxy marriages?
 
~> Right here in this country, among other places.  Usually it's done
because the
~> couple want to be married but for some reason - often if not usually
military
~> service - they cannot be together.  So each goes through the marriage
ceremony
~> with a proxy stand-in, and they try to do it at approximately the same time.

I've only known of a few examples of it happening in real-life, but it has
been done many times in television shows, going back to Sgt. Bilko or further.

 
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