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Witness and Matron of Honor

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afternoondelight828
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Witness and Matron of Honor

Is there a difference? My friend asked me twice to be her matron of honor (town of hall wedding with small lunch to follow). I just heard from another friend that she asked her and her dh to be her witnesses. Is this different?

P.S. this has been going on for 2 years now and we are pretty sure there never will be a wedding bit was just curious.

Posted 3/14/13 1:01 PM
 
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femalej
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Re: Witness and Matron of Honor

Posted by afternoondelight828

Is there a difference? My friend asked me twice to be her matron of honor (town of hall wedding with small lunch to follow). I just heard from another friend that she asked her and her dh to be her witnesses. Is this different?

P.S. this has been going on for 2 years now and we are pretty sure there never will be a wedding bit was just curious.



witness is who signs the marriage license. i think its common that the MOH is also the witness, but there is no rule to that.

Posted 3/14/13 1:11 PM
 

afternoondelight828
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Afternoon

Re: Witness and Matron of Honor

Posted by femalej

Posted by afternoondelight828

Is there a difference? My friend asked me twice to be her matron of honor (town of hall wedding with small lunch to follow). I just heard from another friend that she asked her and her dh to be her witnesses. Is this different?

P.S. this has been going on for 2 years now and we are pretty sure there never will be a wedding bit was just curious.



witness is who signs the marriage license. i think its common that the MOH is also the witness, but there is no rule to that.



Ok thanks. Wasnt sure if she asked both of us to do the same thing.

Posted 3/14/13 1:27 PM
 

WantBabyNbr2
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Amy

Witness and Matron of Honor

I didn't have my MOH as my witness. I actually never heard of that association until this post. I considered them 2 separate "honors".

I had my step-mom sign as the witness as i didnt really have anything special for her to do besides that.

Posted 3/14/13 1:35 PM
 

Ian&EmmesMommy23
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Diana

Witness and Matron of Honor

i was the "best man" for my friends wedding and he had his other friend as a witness to sign the marriage license. it was a way to honor her as well. when i got married my sister was my MOH and signed my ketubah. so it can go either way.

Posted 3/14/13 1:46 PM
 

AllyMally
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Alyson

Witness and Matron of Honor

I never heard of it being 2 separate things. Our MOH and Best Man signed our marriage license.

Posted 3/14/13 2:15 PM
 

Jax430
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Re: Witness and Matron of Honor

We had friends who were not in our wedding party, but who we still wanted to honor, sign our civil license and our Ketubah (Jewish marriage license). It gave us a way of honoring 4 more people.

Posted 3/14/13 2:45 PM
 

sunnygirl
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Re: Witness and Matron of Honor

I was moh twice and both times was the witness along with the best man
I'm sure it can be different people

Posted 3/14/13 5:02 PM
 

Courtz
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Re: Witness and Matron of Honor

Posted by afternoondelight828

Posted by femalej

Posted by afternoondelight828

Is there a difference? My friend asked me twice to be her matron of honor (town of hall wedding with small lunch to follow). I just heard from another friend that she asked her and her dh to be her witnesses. Is this different?

P.S. this has been going on for 2 years now and we are pretty sure there never will be a wedding bit was just curious.



witness is who signs the marriage license. i think its common that the MOH is also the witness, but there is no rule to that.



Ok thanks. Wasnt sure if she asked both of us to do the same thing.



I was told the witness who signs the license can't be a blood relative.

Posted 3/16/13 6:07 PM
 

sunnygirl
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Re: Witness and Matron of Honor

Posted by Courtz

Posted by afternoondelight828

Posted by femalej

Posted by afternoondelight828

Is there a difference? My friend asked me twice to be her matron of honor (town of hall wedding with small lunch to follow). I just heard from another friend that she asked her and her dh to be her witnesses. Is this different?

P.S. this has been going on for 2 years now and we are pretty sure there never will be a wedding bit was just curious.



witness is who signs the marriage license. i think its common that the MOH is also the witness, but there is no rule to that.



Ok thanks. Wasnt sure if she asked both of us to do the same thing.



I was told the witness who signs the license can't be a blood relative.



That can't be true I signed for my sister she signed for me and dh and his brother signed for each other.

Posted 3/16/13 6:21 PM
 

ourlivesstartnow2012
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Re: Witness and Matron of Honor

Posted by sunnygirl

Posted by Courtz

Posted by afternoondelight828

Posted by femalej

Posted by afternoondelight828

Is there a difference? My friend asked me twice to be her matron of honor (town of hall wedding with small lunch to follow). I just heard from another friend that she asked her and her dh to be her witnesses. Is this different?

P.S. this has been going on for 2 years now and we are pretty sure there never will be a wedding bit was just curious.



witness is who signs the marriage license. i think its common that the MOH is also the witness, but there is no rule to that.



Ok thanks. Wasnt sure if she asked both of us to do the same thing.



I was told the witness who signs the license can't be a blood relative.



That can't be true I signed for my sister she signed for me and dh and his brother signed for each other.



Agreed! My sister and DH's uncle signed for me and DH. I was told that my ketubah could not be my sisters though. I had my best female cousin (also a bridesmaid) and my close male cousin (not a groomsmen but a way to honor him).

Posted 3/17/13 1:17 PM
 
 

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