With sixteen days until the wedding I made it to the county clerk’s office to get started on a marriage license. Normally you can just walk in the day before the wedding and take care of that. With the vacation days remaining crisis Heather is facing, and the fact that they close at 5:00pm, we really can’t use the normal option.
The wording on their website is less than clear, and I thought initially that if both of us couldn’t be there, we only had the option of mailing the form in, and then involving a notary. After a phone call a week or so back however, I found out that I can get the form half done, in person, just by walking in.
They are located very much downtown, meaning I spent more time trying to find a place to park than I did in their office. Ether my luck with government offices is holding up, or Wednesday mornings aren’t a real busy time for issuing marriage licensees, so I was able to just walk up to the desk and talk to someone. The young woman was very friendly, and I really didn’t have to do anything other than raise my right hand and solemnly swear that the information on the sheet was accurate. Kind of odd, I only sort of managed to not have the worlds dumbest grin on my face while attesting to the birthplace of my parents.
Heather still has to sign the form in front of a notary, and then I have to return with the form so they can issue some other form, but at least we wont ever have the form somewhere in the mail.
-Jordan
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