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I was listening to Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, and he mentioned that only Jews need to get married to be together and it is not required for gentiles.
We do recognize non-Jewish marriage, since Gentiles are punished for having physical relations with someone else's wife (both the man and woman are punished).The way marriage is created or dissolved however is different for Gentiles than it is for Jews.(Clarification for the more learned. It's true that on a Torah level one of the 3 ways that the mishna lists to get married is "biah". But that method is banned by rabbinic law.)
Yevamot 52a implies that the rabbis would punish someone for violating a rabbinic law if they used the biah method to create the marriage.And see Rabbi Epstein's, Aruch Hashulchan, Even Haezer 61:13 where he implies this is the accepted halacha.
They can't ban biah, because if you're 2 Jews in a forest that can't write, there's no other option, and Jews need babies, because it's a mitzvah.
Regarding the view of LKZTo get married you also need 2 kosher witnesses. In any case, another way to get married is for the Jewish man to give the his wife-to-be any object the worth of a prutah for the purpose of creating the marriage in front of 2 kosher witnesses and while he is giving it he says to the woman the appropriate halachic statement creating the marriage (and the woman of course consents to all this). This is relatively easy to do for a couple in a forest when they have 2 kosher witnesses.I also wish to point out that the Talmud (Gittin 57a) praises a couple who were even halachicly married but because they were taken captive without a Ketuba document nevertheless did not have physical relations.I need to do further research if this was just a praiseworthy act (above and beyond the requirement of halacha) or an absolute requirement under the set of conditions that this particular couple was faced with.