"Fortunately Texas is one of the states which allows marriage by proxy."

In recent times, marriage by proxy could be contracted through the exchange of photographs.

A marriage by proxy to the French king was held in Fuenterrabia.

Marriage by proxy in California (limited to military stationed abroad in war or conflicts)

Catholic Canon Law permits marriage by proxy.

Cardinal Hume said: "I know marriage by proxy is normal, but I wish I had been consulted first."

Upon the marriage by proxy in 1437, Amedea became queen consort of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia.

After a marriage by proxy to the French king in Fuenterrabia, María Teresa became known as Marie-Thérèse.

After a marriage by proxy, they were wedded on 7 October 1649 in Navalcarnero, near Madrid, and spent their wedding night at El Escorial.

A Papal dispensation by Clement V in November 1305 permitted her immediate marriage by proxy, despite the fact that she was probably only 10 years old.

The tribal and cultural practices of some Muslims of marrying their spouse, sight unseen, is permitted as is marriage by proxy but not a practice encouraged in Islam.

It provided a civil registry for legal marriages, raised the marriageable age to 20 for males and 18 for females, and banned marriage by proxy; both parties had to consent to a marriage.

However, others historians supported the idea that Sophie and Conradin were, in fact, legally married, because the contract signed by Louis II was, clearly, a marriage by proxy with all the legal obligations.

The marriage by proxy took place on 28 August 1689 in Ingolstadt, Germany with the attendance of her brother-in-law Emperor Leopold and her sister Empress Eleonore among other illustrious guests.

After James IV's marriage by proxy, he met Janet at Bothwell Castle in April 1503, then she was sent to Darnaway Castle in August just before Margaret arrived.

On 25 January 1502, the feast of the Conversion of St Paul, Ayala attended the marriage by proxy of James IV to Margaret Tudor at Richmond Palace.

The marriage by proxy took place on 15 August 1725 in the cathedral of Strasbourg, Louis XV being represented by his cousin Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans.

Prince Pedro, future Emperor of Brazil as Pedro I and Princess Leopoldina of Austria received the nuptial blessing in the chapel on 6 November 1817, having previously entered into marriage by proxy.

Marie de' Medici became the second wife to King Henry IV of France in a marriage by proxy on 5 October 1600 by the power invested in her uncle, Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany.

Upstairs more objects, photographs of objects and mirrors that reflect both join the fray in a series of pieces that continue the absence-presence theme, while touching on the rites of confession, marriage by proxy and chickens confronted by their reflections.

Her marriage by proxy, on 19 April 1661, did nothing to change her attitude, much to Louis XIV's ministers' discontentment; on the day she was supposed to meet diplomats offering their congratulations on the wedding, she attempted to abscond and go hunting, only to be stopped by the Duchess of Montpensier.