A young couple was looking forward to the day they were to get married. Unfortunately, that plan was changed when they were both killed in a car accident.

Upon their arrival in Heaven, they sought out St. Peter and told him they were planning on getting married when they were killed, and asked St. Peter if he could arrange to have them married in Heaven. He pondered the question and said it would be difficult, but to come back in five years.

Five years later, they returned and again repeated their request. St. Peter said he hadn’t been able to make the arrangements yet, but asked them to return in another five years.

Five years later, they reappeared to him and St. Peter rejoiced in telling them he had been able to make the final arrangements. They were married shortly thereafter.

A few years later, they were having problems in their marriage and decided to get a divorce. They went to St. Peter, asking him to make the divorce arrangements. In exasperation, St. Peter said: “It took me ten years to get a judge up here so you could get married, and now you want me to find a LAWYER?”