My fiance and I went to get our marriage license today. 25 days until the big day! Anyways, we're waiting outside the office with these other couples. The office has a long desk with two court clerks behind it and two sets of two chairs so they're processing two couples at a time. So it's our turn, we go in and I'm filling out our info on the form for her to put into the computer. Another couple is doing the same next to us. Both clerks start putting our info into the computer. This is the conversation at the other station:Clerk: Ummm there's a problem?Bride: What problem?Clerk (quietly): Sir, it's saying your previous marriage hasn't been disolved...Bride: WHAT?!Groom: What do you mean? I've never been married before, this is bulllllllllllsh*t.Clerk: Well sir, it's saying you married [name] on [date] in Boliver, Tennessee by [officiant].Groom (thinks for a second): Well she must have filled that license out by herself, I didn't sign NOTHIN.Clerk: Well...I have a copy of the marriage license in the system and it has your signature on it.Bride: DEATH STARE AT GROOM.Groom: (pipes down a little bit and gets quieter) Well this is all messed up. How do I fix this?Clerk: Sir, the only thing we do here is issue marriage licenses and provide copies of licenses filed in Tennessee. We can't do anything else.......pause...Clerk: Do you want a copy of your first marriage certificate? It's only $10 for a copy.Groom: Nah I don't think we need that...Bride: MMMMMMMM HMMMMMMM. I think we DO need a copy of that! [slides a $10 bill across the table]They walked out with the copy and they were fighting all the way down the hall. I hope a dead body doesn't show up in the news cause of this!Cliff Notes: Couple shows up to get their marriage license. Guy is already married and the bride doesn't know. Hilarity ensues.
