Marriage License And Picture News

Posted on by Jordan

After two plus weeks of waiting for something in the mail from the county clerk, we double checked with our pastor to make sure things had been mailed in properly. They had been, and mailed in promptly at that! He mentioned that we should check with another couple in the church who recently got married, because they had some issues. They strongly recommended we call, because apparently two copies of their “certified marriage certificate” got lost in the mail before they just went down to the office and picked one up.

Heather called the clerk’s office today, and found they had records of mailing our certificate just four days after the wedding. It seems the US Postal service has a special bin for loosing marriage certificates in. I will be making a special trip down town to try and obtain a copy of the certificate. If all goes well, Heather can begin the process of changing her name etc. that she has been dreading for months now 🙂

Also over the weekend, picture news!

We talked to our photographer, and she expects to have our pictures completed by this coming weekend! I don’t know if that will include posting pictures on her website, but it should at least include giving a CD of digital copies to us. I hope that means we can have a few pictures posted somewhere on this site over the weekend. Given the lackadaisical posting here though, we might be a little late getting pictures out. I will say though, Heather and I are very excited about the pictures, so there should be ample motivation.

-Jordan

Wedding News! (We Should be Legal)

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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