Marriage cert - address query

[A Lee]

I have obtained the marriage certficate for a couple who had been together and producing children since 1901 to my knowledge, but didn't actually marry until 1935.
They had both been married before - she was widowed in 1899, his first wife died in 1934!
What I am confused about is on the marriage certificate they are both resident at different addresses - What is the point of that, when they have clearly been co-habiting for the previous 35 years?!!!

[Mutley]

Maybe she was superstitious and wanted to do it properly.
"You go to your mum's, I'll go to mine and we meet tomorrow" or words to that effect.
After all, she had to wait a very long time to get him to the altar.... ;)

[SueNSW]

Was it a church wedding?

When I was married in the 70's I can't remember the exact problem, but for me to get married in the church I wanted to - where my parents had married and I had had a long association as a child/teenager, I had to use my grandparent's address as my residence - and this is recorded on my marriage certificate.

They still lived in the Parish but I had moved away from the area (into the next parish) and never actually lived at their address (hope this means it was still legal!!!)

Cheers
Sue

[Dargie]

My great aunt was a servant in London and married her boss.
They obviously lived in the same house in Greenwich but on their marriage certificate they have both listed another address which was close to the church in which they were married.
I think this situation happens a great deal and for many different reasons.

My great grandmother did the same thing. Her second marriage was a secret one in another town from which she and her "live in" much younger second husband lived. They both wrote an address which was in the town in which they were married but not in the town in which they actually lived.

[A Lee]

Thank you all for your replies. The wedding took place in a registry office.
It seems they got together quite soon after she was widowed in 1899 - they had a baby in 1901 - and I can only assume that he never divorced his first wife as it appears she died the year before the wedding - so he appears as a widower on this certificate.
On census transcripts and birth certificates of their children she is recorded as married anyway.