“...marriage licenses were common and legal notice...”
“Common” is not the same as “required”
And posting “public notice” is not a license.
A marriage license is today “common”, but not a legal requirement for Biblical marriage, nor found in the Bible. A marriage has nothing to do with a state or government license.
There currently are Spiritual unions and even legal contracts drawn between two parties in the secular world, but no license is required for those either.
You quoted part of the article, but left out what Ohio law says. A man and woman don’t need to and are not required to sign a contact with a state, as a third party to their marriage. A family Bible with notations is completely legal and lawfully recognized and it need not be inspected, or approved by the state.
You also left out the part that marriage licenses came to be to permit blacks to marry whites as this had been illegal and you needed permission from the government to do so.
We don’t need permission from uncle sugar to marry.
No fault divorce removed all remedy for damages for violating a marriage and renders the implied contact to be unenforceable. No reason, or requirement to involve the state in this matter, because the state will only make dissolution (God forbid that this happens, but it does happen VERY often) of the marriage more costly, time consuming and painful.
Last, you’re going off on another trail completely with the “muslims” comment, which is also irrelevant, off topic and a distraction.
First off I was giving you examples of people having to comply with the law to have a legal marriage, that was true then and for centuries before and marriage law and licenses predate any issue with black/white marriage whether the law was controlled by the Catholic church or the King, or the colonial govts., or the states.
If you don’t want a legal marriage then skip it, and of course if you ever want it to be legal for some reason such as social security or death benefit, I’m sure that you will come up with what the laws says you need to establish that it meets their requirements, I don’t know how the Mormons and Muslims handle their multiple marriages that are kept away from law compliance.