Janeane Garofolo has apparently been married to Big Banf Theory co-producer Rob Cohen for the past twenty years. According to the news story, this is the result of a drunken drive-through ceremony in Vegas that neither thought was for real, until Cohen decided to get married recently, and the truth emerged.
After all, Pepper Mill and I had a shock moment a while back when we couldn’t get the state to produce our wedding documentation, prompting official suspicion that we weren’t married. So I know These Things Can Happen. But I think I’m getting jaded. Can this one-the-surface humorous anecdote maybe be covering up some more mundane and annoying circumstance that they’d rather stay under wraps?
I got married in Vegas and I can tell you that you really know you are getting married when it happens. You have to go down to the courthouse and get a license before the ceremony and then the minister/JOP has to send a copy of your marriage certificate to the courthouse afterward because if you don’t have the ceremony done within a certain number of days after applying for the license it isn’t valid any longer. If they got married in Vegas then they either went on a drunken bender that lasted several days during which they filed all that paperwork or they truly meant to get married and then afterwards just figured that because it was Vegas it didn’t really count.
That would require her to ask for it, at the very least; it doesn’t seem like she’s planning to (it seems like it would be a very stupid move, as it would be completely dickish).
I remember Garofalo appearing on The View years ago and telling the story about her Vegas drive-thru wedding and laughing it off. I don’t know all of the hosts of The View, but there was a black woman who used to be a lawyer, and I remember she wasn’t laughing. She told Janeane “you might want to look into that,” IIRC. Obviously she didn’t follow up, so she really thought it was no big deal.
Also, her Rob Cohen is not the Rob Cohen who directs action movies like The Fast and the Furious and XXX.
This actually did happen locally not long ago; husband and wife married 20ish years. I don’t think she changed her name, so there was no going to the DMV or to the social security office when they got married.
Wife finally had to get something changed government wise and they found out their marriage license had never been filed. They had a wedding, filled out the license and then the government worker never filed that shit.
All was fixed in short order, but still, scary stuff.
However, certain wedding chapels apparently take care of ALL the paperwork for you. According to the OP’s link, they got married at a drive-through chapel in a cab. So you apparently just drive off and let the chapel handle everything.
I think that if she didn’t know they were married, she’s a big retard.
Uh, drive through, go through the *wedding *ceremony, pay, fill out paperwork (I’m sure they had to at least sign something).
Why would they not think a marriage contract was entered into?
