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Some destinations make legal marriage genuinely easy — Denmark, most of the Caribbean, and several popular US states let you get legally married in a day or two with minimal paperwork. Others, including France, Germany, and much of Western Europe, require weeks of local residency before you can even file the application — which is exactly why so many couples there do a symbolic ceremony and handle the real legal marriage back home instead. Neither approach is wrong, but you need to know which category your destination falls into before you book the venue, not after.