I agree with you, but If you don’t get a marriage license you’d better have a lot of legal documents in order with all the I’s dotted and the T’s crossed. If you get married in a religious ceremony and there’s no civil record of it, you may be running some serious risks down the road when it comes to tax law, inheritance, etc.
I have elderly friends man and women who just had a commitment ceremony at a church. They did not want the legal financial laws to come into effect. ???? They now live together. What will happen to them?????