Welp, kids…the Sealman and I officially applied for our marriage license and, I’ve gotta say, it was exciting.
We began the day by finishing up the very last of our church paperwork and—despite an onslaught of relentless rain—decided to take care of our license, too.
At our local parish waiting for our letter of permission to get married in San Francisco.
(Don’t mind my hair—we had just taken refuge from the torrential downpour outside. Mr. Seal was mocking me, but the joke is on him because I’ve just shared his goof-face with the world wide webzzz.)
Thankfully the town in which Mr. Seal and I live also happens to serve as the county seat, so we didn’t have to travel too far in the storm to take care of our soon-to-be-married business.
We are licensed to wed!
We took a seamless stroll over to the Dallas county courthouse today on our lunch break and picked up our marriage license.
All we needed was $71 cash and our driver’s licenses. We filled out a little form on the computer, lifted up our right hand and swore that we weren’t related (yeehaw) or currently married to each other or anyone else. Bing, bang, boom, here’s your marriage license. It is good for 30 days however there’s a 72 hour waiting period starting today.
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Today marked a very important day for the Macarons. We made a pilgrimage downtown to the county clerk’s office to apply for our marriage license! We snapped a quick picture documenting the occasion before heading inside where picture taking is verboden.
Last week, the state of Colorado granted permission for the Huskies to get hitched!
(personal photo)
And while we’re all set on the marriage license front, we’ve had some changes to the roster regarding who will be marrying us.
I mentioned that Step-Husky would be performing our ceremony for us. But, I was hesitant. See, Step-Husky came down with a severe case of Shingles. Generally, folks can recover from this illness in 3-5 weeks. Step-Husky has been battling it for nearly 5 months.
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After leaving dinner with our families Monday evening, Mr. Bear Cub and I got the opportunity to spend some time alone, strolling the streets of downtown Portland. This was such a welcomed breath of fresh air! We talked for a little while about the days to come - last minute plans, tactics for avoiding stress - and then Mr. BC asked me the question.
“Let’s get married!”
“Umm… OK dude. Sounds fantastic. How does Sunday work for you?”
“No, let’s get married tomorrow.”
We had planned to go to the courthouse the following morning (Tuesday) to get our marriage license. My dear fiancé was suggesting we get the license and sign it at the same time!
This caught me a little off guard.
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Woo hoo:
Credit: personal photo by Mr. Taco. It is SO WINDY.
Sixty-seven days out, we went to SF City Hall to snag our license. It’s conveniently located across the street from our venue (see above), so we snapped this commemorative shot while waiting for our return bus. We solemnly swore that we filled out the information correctly: names, addresses, parents’ names, and places of birth. I guess we indirectly solemnly swore that we were not homosexual (not like they checked our parts or anything) or related, too. I almost paid for the souvenir public license, then wondered what we’d do with it exactly. It’s way too big for my scrapbook, and we don’t even have our diplomas on the wall; so, it’s probably just as well.
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What was it? Getting our marriage license! Honestly, I don’t think I’ve been excited about any other legal document, except when I got my driver’s license when I was 16!
In California it was ridiculously easy to get our marriage license.
We filled out the paperwork in advance, showed up at the County Clerk’s office around opening time, waited about 3-4 minutes for our number to be called, swore we filled out the forms accurately, wrote a check for $79, and signed the forms. That was it!
It was also convenient that I could enter my new last name (I’ll be hyphenating, for reasons I posted here) on the license application, so our marriage license will have my new name on it.
Of course, we had to take the required blog photo outside the Clerk’s office with our license! 
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Yep, I said our wedding license, not our marriage license, but there’s a reason. See, I told Mr. Fro Yo that we needed to figure out a time he and I could both leave work to get our marriage license (and I used those words). Finally, we decided that Good Friday was the day to go. I had to work, but Mr. Fro Yo was off, so it was the best time. We got there, and there was only one person in front of us. We grabbed our number and waited to be called.
After we were asked if we were related, delinquent on child support, currently married to someone else, or divorced within the last 30 days, we had our marriage license in hand. I couldn’t believe how easy it was. As we were walking out, I thought we should take a picture to commemorate this moment. Luckily, I had my camera with me. Mr. Fro Yo went up to a police officer standing nearby and asked if he would take our photo because we just go our “wedding license”.
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I mentioned in my post about Carnival that I had to call the courthouse to make sure they’d be open so we could pick up our marriage license, and whew, they will be! Mr. Nachos wasn’t too keen on the idea of a civil ceremony at home so he was very happy to hear that. I didn’t really mind the thought of taking care of the legalities beforehand and going to the courthouse here, (plus a marriage license is cheaper in IL), but I am in fact very happy that we’ll be making it official at our Wyndham ceremony.
In order to have the marriage license ready for us when we get to the courthouse, there are a few steps that need to be done. The instructions for obtaining our marriage license in St. Thomas don’t seem too difficult, but there’s a lot to do. We have to send the following to their courthouse…
These all have to be at the St. Thomas courthouse at least 8 days before we arrive, although some websites I’ve seen recommend sending it all up to 2 months before, which would be next month. GAAAAAHHH, time is starting to speed up on me! Then we have to call to confirm that they received everything and ask for our license confirmation number.
Once we arrive, we have to go to the courthouse in person with photo IDs and sign for the license. We wanted to go straight from the airport, but I doubt our shuttle would be willing to stop and wait, we’ll have all our luggage, AND we arrive at 3 and the courthouse closes at 5. It’s a shame though because…
(Map from Google, altered by me)
…oh well. I guess we’re taking a taxi the next day.
Then a few days later, we get married!!!
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Yep, we’re procrastinators. But Mr. Star and I got up really early a few days ago to get to the NYC Marriage Bureau when they opened so that we could be legally ready to marry!
It was a shockingly short visit, probably 20 minutes or less. We basically just had to give our contact info, parents’ birthplaces, show our IDs, charge some moolah on my credit card, and away we went! Off into the morning glare with our very official-looking paperwork!
We asked some random lady who was handing out fliers if she would take our picture on the steps. And yes, those are the same steps that we protested in front of just a few months ago.
Mr. Sprinkle’s wedding gift is complete! When I had last week off from work, I did a lot of sneaking around. All of our finances have been merged for a while now, so it is pretty hard to hide things that I buy for him. In this case, I had to get very creative. One part of the gift was a little pre-wedding, de-stressing, overnight adventure.
When I dropped off Mr. Sprinkle for work last Thursday (we own only one car, so on days that I don’t teach, I take the mister to work so I can have wheels for the day!) I secretly placed an envelope into his lunch (yes, I pack his lunch every day! Healthy and inexpensive!) with bus fare and some instructions. I told him I would not have phone access for the day, but I would see him in the evening. It was all very mysterious.
After following his detailed directions, Mr. Sprinkle ended up in Beverly Hills, where I treated us to a night at the Avalon Hotel. See, it’s been 100 degrees and super smoky in our ’hood this past week. We live only a few miles from some crazy raging wildfires, so we have been breathing in raining ash and smoky smog haze for days. We also live in a 1920s bungalow with no air conditioning. Let’s just say, it’s been hard to concentrate or work!
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On Thursday the Dude had the day off, so we went to the County Clerk’s office to pick up our marriage license! I was totally excited about it, and the Dude played along rather nicely.
It was altogether pretty uneventful, except for two things.
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… and we don’t even have a cheesy picture to show for it. Because I forgot to take one. Sorry!
I wasn’t even going to blog about this event, since it was so… anticlimactic. But I really don’t have anything else to share at the moment, so why not?
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I knew exactly what we needed to do to get our license: bring our IDs and my paperwork from my previous marriage down to the county records office, pay our money, and fill out our form with our names, addresses, parents’ information, and wedding information.
We arrived at the courthouse, inside which the records office is located and walked up to the security guard to be wanded for weapons. He said “Where are you going?” to which I replied “Records office?” He looked at me funny.
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A few days ago Mr. Swan and I made a major step towards the wedding and got our marriage license.
The process was pretty simple, actually. We made our way down to the NYC Marriage Bureau. While there are branches in each borough of New York City, we decided to go to the newly renovated and relatively high-tech one in lower Manhattan. The city has done a lot of work to make this an attractive place to not only get your license, but also to marry. In all, I think it was a pleasant experience in some pretty nice surroundings.
Here it is in all its glory.
After checking in at the information booth, we filled out an online form, which we could have done at home (but it wouldn’t have had the benefit of all of the atmosphere that only a government office can provide). On the form, I was able to also select a new last name.
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It’s time. Today’s wedding day for the Lattes! It’s been a crazy couple of weeks filled with lots of packing, moving, crafting and last-minute planning. Don’t worry, I’ve been going picture happy so I promise to share with you all of my projects after the wedding. So… escort cards, photo booth details, favors, programs and so much more to come.
But I will leave you with this picture of us getting our marriage license. It summarizes much of what has been going on… we’re both tired from running around all day (that particular day, I had my makeup trial, Mr. Latte delivered some OOT bags, and we were behind on our “To Do” list), but were excited that our big day was near!
Oh hive, I just want to give you a big, fat THANK YOU for your positive enthusiasm, creative energy and most importantly, your unending support throughout the Latte wedding planning process.
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