Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4287993-20131026133402/@comment-5278765-20131026153006

I can totally picture it, too.

Is it legal where you live? It's legal in parts of my country, but not the state in which I live and my state doesn't recognize marriages performed in other states as legal. It's actually legal in Washington State NOW, but it wasn't when they got married and Shonda has confirmed that they never filed the paperwork after it became legal. She said that if she does a legal wedding, she wants to do it in some way that doesn't negate the specialness or the realness of their first wedding (which will always be the day they got married, no matter the legal status). I think that's what brought this whole cheating plot around. It was a way that she could get the apart to get them back together for a legal wedding, a way to separate them for a long enough time and significantly enough that another wedding, a legal marriage, would be a topic of discussion.

Me, too! I actually wrote a fic in which they are back together. I would honestly feel cheated if they got abck together super quickly. They need to work on things and if we get another reunion without them doing that, it'll break them for sure. They never talk about things and that was their ultimate downfall.