Couple shocked as they discover they are not legally married after 6 years

A couple has been thrown into a state of shock after they discovered that they were never legally married, six years after their wedding.

The wife who is a stand-up comedian,  Atsuko Okatsuka, 34, from Los Angeles, California, and her husband Ryan Harper Gray got married on June 2017 in the presence of about 180 family and friends.

The couple discovered they were never legally married after the husband Ryna tried to put his wife on his health insurance and were asked to prove their marriage.

After realizing that they couldn’t find the marriage certificate, they requested a copy from the City of Los Angeles, only to find out that their paperwork was never filed.

“We were asked for proof that we were married, specifically, our marriage certificate,” she told Insider.

“We thought we’d had one at some point, but we’re not very good at paperwork, and when we went to look for it, we couldn’t find one anywhere in the house.

“So we sent off a request to the City of Los Angeles for a copy of our marriage certificate, then set off for a holiday in Tokyo, and Taipei, Taiwan, thinking the marriage certificate would be in our mailbox when we returned. It wasn’t.

“My husband called the city, and when he finally got through, it told him that we weren’t legally married.

“There was no record of us being married. Though we had a wedding in 2017 with 180 of our closest friends and family, the paperwork had never been filed.”