It's kind of arbitrary, getting married on the spot when all hell breaks loose. He didn't do it to get close
to her, otherwise he could've just said "let me whisper something in your ear", she would, and all would be good.
The Tesselecta crew are "lawful good", they strongly abide by the law. Yes, even when the world could end.
They offer the Doctor their help (Wedding of River Song) because they're law abiding people. They withhold information from him even
when he's dying despite that information could help him (Let's Kill Hitler) – UNTIL – Amy says
she's family. And then they say that if she's family (with Melody) she has privileges.
So they're astonishingly law abiding and one of their laws is that family has access to confidential information.
Like.. that the Doctor is inside a tesselecta. He had to wed her to make her family and give her privileges.
Romance is all nice and dandy, but that wedding was for bureaucratical reasons. If it were Kovarian at the centre of
the paradox, he'd wed her.
Keep in mind that the crew of the Tesselecta are (or may be) alien, and are from another time, so their logic and
reasoning may be different than yours.
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