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Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez is getting married on Friday, but without, you know, getting married.

Instead, Gonzalez and his girlfriend, October Russell, will conduct a "formal commitment ceremony" on July 20 in California.

"We're not signing any papers,” Gonzalez recently told the Kansas City Star, "but I wanted the world to know that I love her and want to spend my life with her. I did it the best way for me."

Possible translation: "Did you see how much money Mike Strahan had to pay to his ex-wife? I'm not playin' that game."

Presiding over the ceremony will be Vikings fullback Tony Richardson, who played with Gonzalez in Kansas City through 2005. We don't know whether Richardson has any power vested in him by the State of California to do so, but another benefit of a non-wedding wedding is that he doesn't need it.

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