I don't know. We don't REALLY know that they were going to get married. Maybe Anna was fighting him on it and he had to act quickly to salvage some of it.
She hadn't married him and that's a key point --- she could have at any time, but elected not to.
In that E.T. interview he didn't deny that they were going to be married in two weeks, as he put it, "make it official".
>>>I don't know. We don't REALLY know that they were going to get married. Maybe Anna was fighting him on it and he had to act quickly to salvage some of it.>>>
Yes, it's only HIM that is saying that they were going to get married. And this was said AFTER she died.