This has literally just crossed my mind after reading another thread. DH and I got married abroad, in a country in which marriage isn't recognised in the UK. So for all visa purposes he's my spouse, we have a marriage certificate with a certified translation by the embassy of his country, but legally we aren't married. This has never bothered me before, I'm not religious and as far as I'm concerned we're married. We once had a plan to get married again in the UK for family and friends who couldn't make the first one, but then my GPs died and we were (are) skint and it never happened...and this year we have gone through a near separation and I wouldn't want people to think it's an 'we nearly split up so let's renew our vows to cement our marriage' type thing....
I'm the main earner, we have no assets, DH is on DS's birth certificate, so we have no real need for legal protection, but I just had an urge to do it legally. It would be a registry office plus pub meal type thing, I might try to diet back into my original dress but we wouldn't be able to pay £££££ for people's meals, flowers etc. I could try to put away £500 for it to pay towards meals/booze and a DJ and could do it by next year...so what do people think? Would you bother?
FWIW most of my best friends came to the first one, plus all my immediate family and my aunt who has since died. My GPs died since and there is only one aunt I am close enough to to care about her coming, and one cousin who lives in Oz.