Mrs. Gingerbread, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer
Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004
Wedding Date: July, 2008
Blogging Since: March 24, 2008
Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception
About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
We Got Our Marriage License!
May 23rd, 2008 @ 3:18 pm by Mrs. Gingerbread
Last Friday, the Gingerbreads headed down to city hall the local drug store, London Drugs, to get our marriage license. I was so bummed when I read the Vital Statistics page on how to get married in British Columbia. Marriage licenses are issued by a notary public or an insurance services office. How unromantic!
Seriously, this is where we went to get our marriage license. But really, I should not be complaining. It rocks to be able to get a marriage license at all! Woo hoo, marriage equality! I love you!
Miss GB 2.0 tried to get a marriage license once in California and was denied, so we wanted this to be a reparative experience. Just popping in to the drug store seemed too anti-climactic. A couple of friends (who are a couple) volunteered to come along to make it more eventful. Our friend, Vero, shot the photos, while her partner (the romantic kind, not the business kind), Michelle, shot video.
Here we are at the Insurance desk at London Drugs applying for our license.
In B.C., only one member of the couple has to come in to apply for the marriage license. This is what a non-gender-specific marriage license application looks like. The following information needs to be provided about both people:
Full name
Birth date and birth place
Marital status
Current address
Miss GB 2.0 tells the camera about our marriage license.
Marriage license: $100. The freedom to marry the person you love: priceless!
36 Responses to “We Got Our Marriage License!”
You two are cute as a button. Congratulations on being one step closer to being married!
Aww, you guys are so cute! Congratulations!
Congrats! What an incredible moment for the both of you! It really shows in your smiles! Yay, equal marriage!
Awwwwwee! We are in the Fraser Valley, just outside of Vancouver, and I just can’t wait for my future husband and I to pop into our local London Drugs for a Marriage Licence. LOL! While there, I can pop over to the photo dept, to deveop our engagement photos. Very handy. LOL! Congratulations to both of you!
Congratulations! You two look so happy! I only wish that it were like this in the US too, instead of us celebrating what happened in California last week as a victory, rather than an innate right.
Haha. I can’t imagine going into a LD to get my marriage license. I guess that’s what I’m going to have to do though lol.
EEEEEK! So excited for you two!
OK, seriously. I teared up AGAIN because of you this week, Gingerbread. That last picture of you two made me so happy.
Congratulations. I know you’ve waited way too long for this.
Congrats GB! I know you ladies have been waiting on this forever!
YOU TWO ARE ADORABLE.
Sorry. Needed to get that out of my system 
And according to an article I read earlier this week, apparently California needs to get its hand on the marriage certificate, because it’s just so hard to figure out what to write instead of “Bride” and “Groom”! I wish I were making this stuff up.
Congratulations!!
SOOO CUTE! I love how happy you two look!
Wow, you look so happy! This reminded me of a similar scene in Dan Savage’s book “The Commitment” where he and his FH go into the London Drug to get their marriage license.
I can’t wait to go with Luckdragon to get ours!
Congrats.
mhb and MsAnge, you guys stole my posts! 
Miss GB, you guys are ADORABLE and totally made me cry!!! I love the super-serious expression on Miss GB 2.0’s face in the second-to-last photo.
Congratulations!! It has been a pleasure to read your stories throughout the process. Cheers to you both!
Wow, that’s awesome! Congratulations.
You really can get ANYTHING at LD. It’s kinda cute actually.
Let me know if you decide to do a mock photo at City Hall, I can come outside and take your picture for you =)
that is too funny. a drug store!? i hope the lines were shorter at least.
either way. congratulations!!! it’s right around the corner now!
Your ear-to-ear grins say it all…. YAY for Canada! Yay for love!
(hehe Pengy, it’s only $35 here in Virginia)
It’s hilarious that in Canada you can buy skittles, tampons, and a marriage license at the same time. Can you buy alcohol too? Because then you’d have a party. lol.
Thanks for the photos!! How fun. I can hardly wait to get ours. I’m freakishly excited about it, so I enjoy living vicariously
And is this the first time we’ve caught Miss GB 2.0 on film, or have I just been not paying attention? It’s great to have a face!!
OMG you two are too cute! I love the last picture - smiles from ear to ear
Thanks for the love :)
@MsAnge: No kidding! California should really take a look at marriage license applications from Massachussetts and Canada. It’s not that complicated!
@Erin: Sadly, you can’t buy alcohol in the drug store. You have to go to special beer & wine stores for that. If I recall correctly, it’s like that in Virginia also.
@Miss Penguin: Everything is more expensive in Canada! Freedom isn’t free. Har har.
You two are absolutely adorable together! I hope you girls have the most awesome wedding ever.
You two are awesome. My guy and I are planning to get married in CA in the spirit of solidarity. Yay for Canada, California, South Africa, Norway, etc.!
A drug store! Ha! That’s great! the Canadians crack me up!
Yippee! You two look so so happy.
You two look so happy in the last photo, i’m getting all teary eyed. EOB says you’re so cute he could f-ing die. ha. can’t wait to see y’all in two weeks!
congrats!!!
Aw, look at those smiles on you two
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Yay! congrads!! I’m so thrilled for you two.
Yay, I’m so glad you guys documented this!
This is going to be a SUPER CUTE story to tell your grandkids one day. Picture it…
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