Cliff & Sara's Covenant Wedding Marriage Ceremony (No License) - Part 2 of 4

Cliff & Sara's unique covenant wedding illustrates the beauty of a wedding not licensed by the state, but solely between the husband, the wife, and God. Most people today assume that a marriage license is required. However, even the definition of the word license shows us otherwise -- "a license is permission given by a competent authority to do that which would otherwise be unlawful or illegal." Before the ceremony, Cliff & Sara passed out booklets to explain the finer points of the covenant wedding along with the negative aspects that licensing has had in America.

The booklets handed out during the ceremony, as well as the unique "Constitutional Covenant" Cliff & Sara designed and which was signed during the ceremony are both available online for download.

Ceremony Booklets:
http://carolinaliberty.com/handouts/CovenantInfoBook2.pdf
Reordered/Print Ready:
http://carolinaliberty.com/handouts/CovenantInfoBook2_print.pdf

Cliff & Sara's Constitutional Covenant:
http://carolinaliberty.com/handouts/CovenantConstitution.pdf

The ceremony was performed by Pastor Bob Lightner of Philadelphia Fellowship in Walnut Cove, North Carolina. (www.PhillyFellow.com)

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[chyna7702]

Ok I have a question, I would like to be married this way w/o state license so did you print that covenant, just sign it, and keep it or do you record it with the state as a legal binding document with a notary signature?

[CarolinaLiberty]

@chyna7702 Sorry for so many replies. YouTube keeps marking my comments as spam. Just FYI, muncyweb is my other username on here. Look for my replies under that username.

[sarasays81]

@chyna7702 OH and to answer your question. :-) A friend of ours drafted the wording for the covenant for us, and personalized it for us specifically. Instead of exchanging rings to seal our vows, we signed our covenant, and our witnesses signed it, too. It's framed and hanging in our house. :-)

[sarasays81]

@chyna7702 yeah, that's one thing that we ran into when we first decided to opt out of the marriage license - there's very little information out there! So, that's why we wanted to share our process so that it would bring awareness, and hopefully be helpful to others who are contemplating a similar path. We've had to make some sacrifices since the state doesn't recognize our marriage, but for us - it's WELL worth not having the state as a partner in our covenant!!

[chyna7702]

@sarasays81 thanks so much for responding, I'm still trying to sort all of this out to where I can defend myself I guess b/c no one that I know is even thinking about stuff like this. It's all mind control and I'm trying to be renew in my mind like Romans 12 instructs us to. So how did you draft up that covenant? Did you just do it yourself on a pc?

[sarasays81]

@chyna7702 Also, thanks so much for asking! If you want to know more about the covenant wedding, we created a booklet for our ceremony and compiled some other resources, which can be found at carolinaliberty [dot] com [/] resources [dot] php. We wish you the best of luck!