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RE: ⒶⒷⓇⒶⒽⒶⓂ - the trouble with "till death do us part"
My first husband was an evangelical baptist pastor and I was raised as a very strict catholic. I agree with you 100%!! It was only after my Thai Buddhist marriage (#3) collapsed that I realized there is no promise of fidelity at all - just a community witnessing the binding together (literally, with lucky string). My legal Thai divorce cost 52 baht, and 22 baht of that was photocopying fees. Just to show you how easy and common it is.
That's incredible how little it costs to get divorced!
I like the idea of a community witnessing a binding but have never resonated with the idea of doing it at the beginning of a relationship.
As I mentioned to @thetreeoflife Sabrina and I are not married but do intend to celebrate our union in the future when our children are old enough to enjoy the occasion with us and make it more about what we have achieved with our love, rather than what we intend to do with it, which to us feels more authentic.