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Taxes. Health Insurance. Visa.
This guy knows. Of course you can get those another way, but marriage is the no questions asked route for most people.
Why do you think gay marriage is big news? Gays could always find ways around, but that's the point, marriage is easier and you need to jump through hoops to get the same thing, it's discriminatory and makes a difference between normal and not normal or acceptable ways of getting common ass rights and validations, absolutely useful for when you plan to spend more than a couple of years with someone.
Also, I think you confuse marriage with weddings, those are usually the expensive and stupid ones. Ceremonies are not required to be that stupid.
Marriage makes it easier for your spouse to get their due when you pass. If you were never married it doesn't matter how long you were together your estranged family can still relatively easily pick your corpse clean and leave nothing for the person you actually loved.
Two words “Accredited Investor”
Marriage isn't necessary for a lot of those. A domestic partnership is a lot easier and can get you couples rights, health insurance, life insurance, and visa. Country dependent of course.
I personally don't intend on getting married since I hate that it's a religious practice enshrined in law. But between common law/domestic partnership, we don't need to.
Actually, marriage is one of the founding circumstances why we actually have laws. Although it is reasonable to assume that every marriage ritual in early societies had some kind of 'blessed be this couple' aspect, it originated out of civil necessity (structuring inheritance) before the Jesus Club took over and changed the meaning
and then it took humanity another 2000 years to move away from inheritance in favor of composition. you'd think someone would've realized sooner that it's not always the right abstraction...
That really depends on your jurisdiction. There are places where domestic partners have a different status. Mostly because of the long arm of the Catholic Church.