Almost one-third (32%) of UK newlyweds said they’d used AI tools to help write their vows, according to an Index Digital survey.

Personally, I have to confess that stat gives me a bit of an ick. But my emotions aside, a Dutch court has raised another question about AI-assisted vows: what do they do to the contract of marriage, legally speaking?

Recently, the district court of Overijssel in the east of the Netherlands ruled that “no marriage has been established” after a couple’s registrar used ChatGPT to help him write vows.

These failed to meet the legal terms required by Dutch law, the court found (the couple insist that their registrar only used AI to check the legality of their speech, not to write it).

That meant their marriage was deemed invalid, though they have since legally remarried.

“The intent and legal meaning of those words matter”

Kirsty Cameron, marketing manager from Scriveiner, said this ruling should give couples pause for thought. It “highlights a very real cultural tension we’re seeing right........

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