Mrs. Lollipop, Pittsburgh
Age and Occupation: 26, Computational Linguist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Project Manager
Engagement Date: August 2, 2006
Wedding Date: September 2, 2007
Blogging Since: July 17, 2007
Venue: The PPG Aquarium at the Pittsburgh Zoo
About Me: I'm a Pittsburgh transplant who grew up in the deep south. I have a weakness for exotic alphabets, DIY projects, mobster movies and international travel. My fiance and I are both non-native Japanese speakers and we have a bullfrog named Skinny.
My Two Marriage Applications
July 18th, 2007 @ 9:31 am by Mrs. Lollipop
When one of my bridesmaids and I were in our senior year of high school, we were both sick of filling out college applications. To kill the monotony, we each wrote a marriage application for ourselves. Applicants would have to provide personal information and answer essay questions in order to date or marry us. My application required a credit check and recommendations from at least two non-ex-girlfriend female friends. Hers had a clause that read “Is your name Will Smith? If so, congratulations! You have already been accepted!” Yes, the 90’s were awesome.
So, I was amused to fill out a marriage application at the Allegheny County Register of Wills last week. The page-long form asked basic background information about ourselves and our parents. Other than that, we were required only to show our driver’s licenses and swear (twice!) that we weren’t lying on our application. The whole process took five minutes and now we only need to wait for our marriage license to arrive in the mail.
It’s scary! The government knows that we’re getting married!
The City-County building in Pittsburgh manages to exude the regal atmosphere beyond most civil service buildings.
Mr. Lollipop signs using a pen we stole from another office. We need to get something for our $45 license fee, right? Kidding. Kidding. We put it back five minutes later.
We stuck a victory pose afterwards outside the office.
6 Responses to “My Two Marriage Applications”
Oh man you guys are too cute!
Heehee You two are adorable 
Aw! You guys are too cute. Congratulations on your first legal step towards becoming man and wife.
Congratulations!
Does it say “Eileen Wagner, REGISTER OF WILLS” under the Marriage license sign? That is a brilliant one-stop shop :-).
Those photos ARE cute! And couldn’t be more different than the photos I’ve seen of the same process — well, make that marriage application plus (i)syphilis(/i) test! — here in Washington, DC….
I’ve actually saved someone’s blog entry showing photos from DC, just because they’re so hilariously depressing: http://moltbe.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-get-married-in-washington-dc_27.html
OMG Miss Lollipop — you crack me up because in college a girlfriend (who is now one of my 3 bridesmaids) and I did the same thing. We both ended up in an all girls dorm (one of the two on a campus of at least 10,000 students) and we were bummed out.
So on my door’s white board I wrote “application for the position of the boyfriend now being accepted. inquire within.” On mine it read (now we never actually wrote it down just joked about it)”
1. Do you smoke? If no, proceed to number 2.
2. Are you Russian (because of my first icky boyfriend in college who “broke” my heart, or at least bruised it a little). If no, proceed to number 3.
3. Are you a born again Christian? (OK, first — no offense is meant by this — because of my second boyfriend in college who didn’t tell me he was fundamentalist Christian until we were 3 months in and I had already fallen for him). If no, proceed to number 4.
4. Are you now or have you ever been in the military? (Again — in regards to boyfriend in question # 3 who was a coast guard cadet and I had somehow dated two west point guys too — wasn’t for me).
etc. etc. haha — I’m so amused I’m not the only one who did this!
