Can you imagine going through your whole wedding planning scenario, through the big day itself and then finding out months later that you and your beloved are, in fact, not married at all??!!
It sounds like something from a movie doesn't it - or "only in America", but it happened right here in the UK in East London between October 2004 and March 200.
"The ceremonies took place at the Langtons Wedding Rooms in Hornchurch between October 2004 and March 2005.
It was not until June 2006 that the High Court ruled the marriages valid. " (source: bbc news website)
The council involved has now been ordered to pay each of the 193 couples involved £150. The couples had to wait until June 2006 before being given the green flag that they were indeed, a married couple!
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