{"id":560,"date":"2016-07-01T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2017-02-08T17:36:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:36:27","slug":"my-sons-five-part-wedding-part-two-legalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/my-sons-five-part-wedding-part-two-legalities\/","title":{"rendered":"My Son&#8217;s Five-Part Wedding:  Part One:  Legalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once Julian and Cathy were engaged, they set the wedding for April 2016 &#8212; far enough off for all the necessary planning and preparation, but not much more than that.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 60%; margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/1025_1.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first step, though, was to get a marriage license. Where Julian&#8217;s a foreigner, that was slightly more complicated than it might otherwise have been, so they didn&#8217;t put it off for long. On October 25, 2015, they went to the appropriate office in Shanghai (why Shanghai and not Hangzhou? I&#8217;m not sure) and filled out the necessary paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Which meant that under Chinese law, they were now married. The Chinese government doesn&#8217;t care about ceremonies. From then until April it was sort of vague as to whether we should consider them engaged or married, but <i>officially<\/i>, they were married. An official photo was taken, as seen here, but that was about it for any sort of celebration.<\/p>\n<p>That was Part 1 of the wedding. And that was it until April.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 45px; left: 364px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Julian and Cathy were engaged, they set the wedding for April 2016 &#8212; far enough off for all the necessary planning and preparation, but not much more than that. The first step, though, was to get a marriage license. Where Julian&#8217;s a foreigner, that was slightly more complicated than it might otherwise have been,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/my-sons-five-part-wedding-part-two-legalities\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}