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Why cruise captains can't marry passengers

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Romanticizing a sudden nautical wedding on the bridge is a complete waste of time. Unless the ship is registered in a very specific handful of countries, the guy in the fancy white uniform has absolutely no jurisdiction to officially bind you to another human being.

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