N.Y. Domestic Relations Law § 12: Marriage, how solemnized

§ 12. Marriage, how solemnized. No particular form or ceremony is

required when a marriage is solemnized as herein provided by a clergyman

or magistrate, or one-day marriage officiant as designated by a town or

city clerk pursuant to section eleven-d of this article, but the parties

must solemnly declare in the presence of a clergyman, magistrate, or

such one-day marriage officiant and the attending witness or witnesses

that they take each other as spouses. In every case, at least one

witness beside the clergyman, magistrate, or such one-day marriage

officiant must be present at the ceremony.

The preceding provisions of this chapter, so far as they relate to the

manner of solemnizing marriages, shall not affect marriages among the

people called friends or quakers; nor marriages among the people of any

other denominations having as such any particular mode of solemnizing

marriages; but such marriages must be solemnized in the manner

heretofore used and practiced in their respective societies or

denominations, and marriages so solemnized shall be as valid as if this

article had not been enacted.