The "I now pronounce you woman and husband" thing doesn't mean anything
“I now pronounce you woman and husband” A Facebook page – which is probably a totally fine and lovely Facebook page, I really don’t know it – has raised the thought of how some people in the past use these words: I now pronounce you woman and husband” and here’s the thing. I’ve never said “I now pronounce you woman and husband” I marry people every week, sometimes multiple times a week, if it’s 2021, about five couples a week after last year’s disaster of a year, and I have never said those words. There’s this bullshit thing people get in their head about weddings about all these things you “have to do” and they think it’s either law, or it’s luck, or it’s tradition like there’s only one tradition and you’ll be haunted by your Great Great Grandma if you don’t follow the traditions. It’s all bullshit. What’s not bullshit? In Australia to get legally m...