Can a Quaker Marry a Non Quaker?

For Quakers and Non-Quakers: A Special Wedding License
This special license allows a couple to forgo the services of an officiant and marry themselves. While the license is typically associated with Quakerism, anyone can use the license. The license allows couples to marry on their own terms.

Did Quakers marry non Quakers?

Thus, Quakers' marriages were legally recognised at a time when marriages within other non-conformist traditions were not legally recognised. ... This is signed by the couple themselves, and by all who were present at the meeting for worship for solemnisation of their marriage.

Are Quaker marriages legal?

A self-uniting marriage license is a legal document that allows a couple to be married in the absence of a third-party officiant. Self-uniting marriages are sometimes referred to as “Quaker” marriages because the custom as we largely know it today originated among the Religious Society of Friends.

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