Article 25 — — Formalities of Celebration.

1) Marriage shall be concluded publicly in the presence of the future spouses and two witnesses for each of the future spouses. 2) The future spouses and the witnesses shall declare, under oath, that the essential conditions of marriage are not violated. 3) The officer of civil status shall inform the future spouses and their witnesses, before taking oath, of the consequences of their declaration. 4) Each of the future spouses shall declare openly to the officer of civil status that they consented to conclude marriage on their own tree will. 5) Each of the spouses and their witnesses shall sign in the register of civil status. 6) Upon fulfillment of the formalities prescribed above, the officer of civil status shall pronounce them united in marriage and shall issue a certificate of marriage to that effect.