Licensed to Wed

Licensed to Wed

December 29th, 2011 @ 5:54 am by Mrs. Raccoon
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We did our homework and showed up at the clerk’s office over prepared toting every sort of ID imaginable. They pretty much just asked us if we were on drugs or married to anyone else. No sweat or surprises and $20 later, we have our certificate and 60 days to make it all official!

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The copy that’s ours to keep leaves a little to be desired. It’s just a yellow sheet of printer paper they slapped an extra seal on. I don’t know where my expectations of awesomeness came from, but not being met it left me searching for a different certificate. A little something like this is more what I had in mind:

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Image via OnceWed / Photography by Austin Gros

The Graphics Fairy has this one from an 1880s book available to download for free on her site along with a lot of other images. The only change we’d have to make is the year.

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The Graphics Fairy

Can I share one more I’ve found in my searches? It popped up in Google and I can’t fight how much I’d love to have it.

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Image via Ancestor Hunt

I’ll figure something out. Did getting your marriage license go smoothly?

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12 Responses to “Licensed to Wed”

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uberbrides

Every county seems to have a different license. For some real eye candy, check out the Ketubah a Jewish marriage certificate.

12/29/11 @ 6:49 am (reply)

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bkieland (message) 66 posts, Worker bee

I am in love with that last photo…where can you buy that one? I google searched but nothing pretty like that came up.

12/29/11 @ 8:09 am (reply)

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TinyTina (message) 3,312 posts, Sugar bee

Yay, how exciting that you got your license!! Hopefully we won’t have any problems with ours in NY, but we’ll prepare ourselves and bring everything.. Just in case!

12/29/11 @ 9:53 am (reply)

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Miss Mole (message) 985 posts, Busy bee

We are filling out our “fast track” application today, but we won’t pick up our license until the day before our wedding!

12/29/11 @ 12:08 pm (reply)

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Miss Raccoon (message) 308 posts, Helper bee

@uberbrides: Ketubahs are so pretty!

12/29/11 @ 4:16 pm (reply)

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Miss Raccoon (message) 308 posts, Helper bee

@bkieland: I know! I haven’t been able to find that one for purchase either. I’m thinking about just trying to open it in an editing program and take out the written text. It looks like it says it’s from 1888.

12/29/11 @ 4:19 pm (reply)

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Miss Raccoon (message) 308 posts, Helper bee

@TinyTina: Hope everything goes smoothly for you!

12/29/11 @ 4:20 pm (reply)

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Miss Raccoon (message) 308 posts, Helper bee

@Miss Mole: Today! That’s really exciting! I’ve heard about where you can start the application before going in to pick it up. That would be a big help.

12/29/11 @ 4:24 pm (reply)

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Miss Sunhat (message) 865 posts, Busy bee

$20? What a deal! We had to fork over $60.

12/29/11 @ 7:21 pm (reply)

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alicia1745 (message) 468 posts, Helper bee

@Miss Sunhat: Ours is $102.50 - that is IF it doesn’t go up after the new year.

12/30/11 @ 11:21 am (reply)

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Miss Raccoon (message) 308 posts, Helper bee

@alicia1745: Holy smokes that sounds like a lot! It will be worth it though. I think we had a lower rate since I live in the same county we’ll be married in.

12/31/11 @ 2:31 pm (reply)

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Future Army Wife (message) 1,101 posts, Bumble bee

Ours was super-duper easy, and the lady at the Clerk of Deeds thanked us for being so organized. And our license is also rather anti-climatic. Just white and green and currently chilling on the staircase not in an envelope.

1/7/12 @ 2:54 pm (reply)