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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9568170" data-attributes="member: 7737">I suppose I can't just leave this hanging out here without a follow up.This has nothing to do with nuTSR! But anyway.Twenty-cough years ago my then-fiancée and I wanted to find a judge to officiate at a wedding for us. Neither of us is religious, but we wanted something more than just the marriage license, so we knew we were going to have ceremony with the dress and the flowers and dad walking daughter down the aisle and "by the power vested in me", etc.We have some friends who are lawyers, and they recommended a judge they knew in the area. We scheduled an appointment with her, I'll call her Judge Brown and after she met with us and heard our ask, OH NO! THE PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE! Judge Brown was no longer doing weddings. But, she said, she had a colleague in the same building who she thought would be perfect.I'm going to call him Judge Fitzpatrick (not his real name) just to make this story a bit easier to follow."OK, thanks," I said, "Should we schedule a meeting for next week with Judge Fitzpatrick?"Judge Brown replied, "No need for that. Just go down to courtroom #3, I'll phone ahead and tell him you're coming."So my then-fiancée and I go down to courtroom #3. This is the court of common pleas so there are a lot people there, a court reporter, a bailiff, I think a few attorneys, it was honestly kind of a madhouse. We kind of uncertainly sit down and wait.About 5 minutes later, "All rise for the Honorable Judge Fitzpatrick!" He sweeps into the courtroom looking regal in his robe with his silver hair and beard, like central casting for trustworthy judge.Various people start going up to him but he says, "Hold on! Where's my couple who wants to get married?"Turns out Judge Fitzpatrick was going to perform the ceremony right there in that courtroom while making everyone else wait.  We hastily explained, no, we were hoping to having him officiate at our wedding ~11 months from then.A good laugh was had by all and yes, 11 months later, he officiated at our wedding.Fun fact: it was the last wedding he ever officiated because a few days later (we were married at the very end of December) he started his term as a Federal Judge who, I guess, don't do weddings because those are a state function? (I'm sure Snarf will correct me where I'm wrong.)Anyway that's the story of how I almost accidentally got married while observing court proceedings.</blockquote>

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