Can I have a wedding ceremony without a license?

You can do it if the pastor will agree to it, which I doubt you'll find a pastor who will. I cannot say whether it will get the pastor in trouble. Probably not with the authorities, but perhaps with his congregation. If you are able to go through with this you will not really be married. You will have only gone through a ceremony.

You can do that but the marriage would not be recognized by the State.

In Arizona the statute requires a license be issued for a marriage ceremony to be performed. Here is a link to the statute: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/25/00111.htm&Title=25&DocType=ARS

What is the point? You cannot be part pregnant, and you cannot be part married. Of course, you can do whatever you want, but it is not a marriage ceremony. I would be hesitant to get up in front of a bunch of witnesses, without a license, and make the marriage vows because in some countries that might constitute a marriage. Later, if you do not end up together, you might have to go through a divorce so as to not become guilty of bigamy.

Do you want to have a fake marriage so you are not really married but you will pretend to be, or Do you want to have a real marriage but pretend you do not, so you can consider committing fraud regarding eligibility for grants. Neither seems a particularly pretty way to start a life together. Your plans may require some more thought than you have given to date.

Either get married or don't get married. Otherwise it's just a skit. I doubt that the pastor would go along with it.

Sure, you can do it, but you won't be married. As for the pastor, that would be between him and his hierarchy, although I think his or her conscience would have a lot to do with it. Why don't you go to the financial aid people and ask them what would happen. I have a suspicion that your financial aid would not change.

Okay welcome to the Religious Right where you get to do whatever it is you want to do under the name of GOD. Are you serious? You want me to assist you with legal advice so you can commit a fraud on the federal student loan program? Really? Seriously? Aside from not knowing how to use spell-check I have to wonder how you ever were accepted into a college program. 1. You are asking a lawyer how to commit a fraud. 2. You are asking it on a public website. 3. You used the wrong word, "throw", and I believed you meant 'through'. 4. What did your parents teach you about morality along with right and wrong? 5. If you are so worried about the pastor perhaps what you need is a priest and the confessional. 6. How can you be spending money on a fake wedding but you can't afford to pay for your own education, but instead want the taxpayers to foot the bill for your education? 7. Have you taken any classes on ethics? Perhaps you should. 8. Did you intend to lie to everyone attending the wedding just to get gifts? 9. Have you considered that what you would be doing equates to a common law marriage and when you answered the questions on your aid applications you would again be lying. 10. You can't be serious. You don't need a college education, you certainly don't need each other, you shouldn't be breeding children until the two of you grow up, but what you do need is a year off to do some hard work to find out what life is all about. You can't be serious.

No. you going to start a marriage contract on the basis of fraud, then why would either of you expect the other to honor it longer than the first few days?

No, in Florida you need a marriage license.

Any formal wedding ceremony is legally insignificant without the marriage license. If you want to be recognized by the state as being a married couple, then you have to get the marriage license. Otherwise, you are just going through the motions of having a religious ceremony minus the legal significance.