The things you find out researching ones family tree...

[Beka]

ok i have been building our family tree for sometime now and i have just uncovered the hugest most whopping lie that has been told to us... back in 2001 when David and i were preparing to marry a few of you may recall his dad re-married and when we all offered to go be there (after all he'd been with david's step mother longer than his own bio-mother) we were told not to bother- made for an "interesting" atmosphere and seemed really really frikken odd that you wouldn't want your own kids at your wedding but we left it be (and to be honest it seemed little more than a "look at me" show from FIL to MIL knowing mil was engaged to be remarried- it seemed like suddenly they were getting married after over 20 years just to show mil they could do it before her AND before us - yes, my fil really is that much of a child)

Anyway- i have been putting together our family tree and for over a week now i have been trying to track down details of their marriage tonight i have had it confirmed that yes, yes in deed my (suspicious FIL hating) mother was totally right- FIL and David's step mother did NOT marry- the entire thing was a farce and a wedding never took place... they lied, they lied and pretended they got married

Who in the hell does something so childish and pointless?

Does he think we're all after the millions he doesn't have? Did he think we were only marrying because he hadn't?

The man entirely baffles me i swear.... now, the question is do i call and ask him when & where they married all innocently under the guise of building my tree and watch him try and squirm out of it? LOL may wait until we next have a big family do at Nans house and ask in a crowded room :lmao

[wendygrace]

Oh do ask him in a crowded room! It would be so much fun! How bizarre is that! You have one of the strangest families I "know" Beka. Although if I start on the stories about my family, I may be able to top ya. ;)

[Lori]

I have a cousin who had a big wedding, and it turns out they didn't have a marriage license. None of us get it.

I have a friend who has several family members who she is almost 100% sure aren't married who say that they are, as well. I really don't understand why someone would say they were married if they weren't, though.

[Beka]

LOL Wendy my family (and the one i married into) are completely and utterly bizarre

Lori that is the really weird thing- i could have understood it if they'd have had a mock wedding but with no legality to it but they didn't even do that because they told us all (us and his sisters and grandparents) not to travel down for it (even though my dad offered to drive us all for free) and they didn't have any photos, video or anything which seemed odd at the time so we've always had suspicions but to have them confirmed has just left me wondering if the man entirely lost his mind

[Jenny]

thats just WEIRD..I would confront him!!

[Jejune]

My dad got married and didn't tell any of us. It lasted only a few weeks or something, but my sister found a wedding picture and asked him about it. He denied it, and she looked it up on the interweb. Sure 'nuff, there was a marriage license from the state of Nevada. I guess they got it annulled a few weeks later. People are very, very strange. I don't get it at all.

[Beka]

Kristen i think we've drawn very many (orange) similarities between my fil and your father in the past LOL quite amusing to find their bizarre tendancies for marriages (both fake and denied) is yet another one!

[MathSpeak]

Beka, that is odd. LOL I'm not sure that I know anyone who pretends they're married. I usually find people pretending they're single, when they're not :rolleyes

[TracyS]

Oh! I love family tree building.

SIL got married a few mths before we did because she was convinced that she HAD to be married first. *bah* She bought her OWN ring, scrambled to get everything together & in the end, her's just looked like everything was just thrown into a blender, hit frappe & then spat out in all directions (very unprofessional & poorly planned, not messy), especially once we had our wedding a few mths later.

AND on top of that, they hadn't even bothered to file their papers until about 2 mths after we'd gotten our wedding certificate back because she "didn't know"