Same-sex Skype marriage unexpectidly (sic) annulled

[WillParkinson]

Same-sex Skype marriage unexpectidly (sic) annulled

Mark Reed, Dante Walkup and over 80 guests celebrated their same-sex e-wedding on October 10th without the slightest indication that it would be annulled only a few weeks later, dot429 reports.

The Texas couple thought they had found a loophole in the system when they were married by a Washington D.C. officiant from Texas using Skype–an online Web conferencing program. The “loophole” Reed thought he found last year was a D.C. law stating that the officiant, not necessarily the wedding party, must be present in D.C. at the time of the ceremony, the man told dot429. After verifying this condition with the D.C. courts, the couple began planning their short-lived marriage.

The couple soon received a letter from court authorities notifying them the marriage was annulled because the couple failed to appear in D.C. during the ceremony.

“We were stunned because the court had annulled our marriage without contacting us or our officiant,” Reed said of the news. “There was a total lack of due process of law.”

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