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Dear folks, I am an Australian man, happily engaged to a Goan woman, both living in Australia. We plan to marry next year in Goa. My fiancee wants to get married in Australia this year, in a registry office, and then have our proper church wedding in Goa next year. As far as she is concerned, the registry office marriage means nothing, and we won't be married in the eyes of God until our church wedding, but it will simplify the legal aspects of planning a wedding in Goa. Although the registry office marriage might mean nothing to her, in Australia (and all other places that I know of) the church recognises this marriage, and so in the eyes of God we are already married (and cannot subsequently get married in a church - except for just a renewal of vows). So I don't understand how we could get married again in Goa, and it mean anything. She tells me that she knows many people who have done this, but it doesn't make sense to me. My mother has made some enquiries through my local parish, and I believe that her enquiry made it to the bishop of Goa who clearly said that one cannot marry twice, even if the first is in a legal office and not a church. I don't want to do deceive the church or the law. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, C