Thats is absolutely false. As long as the couple is married in a country that the United States recognizes marriages from then they are 100% legally married. I have several friends who have traveled to foreign countries to get married and they are as married as if they got married at a church down the street from their home.
Many resort areas promote wedding packages.
Sorry, I didn't make it clearer. Foreign weddings are valid but in the case I described the man hired someone who wasn't legally able to marry them. It was a sham ceremony but she didn't know it. When they came back from their honeymoon they had a big wedding reception. While they were 'married' she continued to work in his chain of stores - I think it was childrens clothing, Ragged Bear or something like that and also had some children with him. I could be wrong on these details but something similar to this actually happened and I think Jacob Atwood was an attorney on that divorce also.
I got married in Denmark, and that's perfectly valid in the US. Just get an international marriage certificate to avoid any translation problems on this end.
Ah yes, but in the US it is illegal for a priest/pastor to perform a wedding withoug a marriage license. In parts outside the US this is not true.
It is the way my wife and I would have preferred it to improve tax and other legal money matters.
We wanted to be married in the eyes of God, but not the state.