Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?
My wife and I live in the United States but got married in Italy at her hometown city hall.  She is Italian and I am American.  She wanted to do this badly, but for an American and an Italian to get married in Italy is an extraordinarily complicated process.  It involved having witnesses present themselves at the US Embassy (conveniently we&#x27;re in DC) to vouchsafe that I am not already married, and to have witnesses to vouchsafe for my witnesses.  It also involved a huge back-and-forth between the embassy and the local city hall in my wife&#x27;s hometown who, for who knows why, hold some authority.  I had to go through some weird procedure because I was having a civil and not catholic church wedding.   I had to have wedding vows drawn up in both Italian and English, and have a person available to translate in real time to make sure that I understood my vows (because apparently not understanding vows you wrote puts you in legal jeopardy in Italy, I kid you not).  The entire thing required numerous notorizations, forms, and literally dozens of people along the way apologizing for the suffocating Italian bureaucray which of course, they were part of.<p>Along the entire way <i>every single bureaucrat</i> asked me the exact same question:<p>&quot;Why don&#x27;t you just get married in the US?&quot;