MGs, I need your help!

felicia220

Okay so I am trying to change my name.  So I need a copy of my Marriage License right?  Well I am all kinds of confused and the lady I just spoke to was not helpful at all.  Everything I have been reading says that what I applied for was a marriage certificate and what I get is marriage license, well this lady is telling me that I applied for a license and have to buy a copy of my certificate, don't I just get a copy.  I am so frustrated right now because everything I have been told to this point has been contradicting, I am not even sure I am legally married right now.  What the hell am I suppose to be doing?  Please help me.  I am not normally this stupid, but I am being told so many different things from different clerk's offices (my hometown and the town I got married in is different)  

akmackay

I get confused with the terminology... but we applied in our hometown, then our officiant sent something in saying we were married to the town we got married in. We had to go and pick up our marriage certificate (I think?) in the town we got married in- had to pay $10 each copy to get it. There are fees to apply and fees to actually get the document after you're married.

felicia220

Thanks, I was completely confused.  How long did you wait to go pick it up, because the woman never answered that question, just rushed me off the phone.  Also how many copies did you get?  

cvl105

You apply for your license and then after you're married you need to get a copy of the certificate.  You DO have to pay for a copy, just as you would have to for a birth certificate, etc.

akmackay

They told me it would be ready a week or two after the wedding- I went I think a month after? We only got 1 copy but she said we can go at any time to get another. Also, make sure to get the "long copy" (this is what the lady called it) for SS

demarcosjd

Same as pp. The office we would have needed to go to had really weird office hours and was not around where we live. They were able to mail it to us and it took about 4 days for us to get it.

felicia220

Thanks girls. 

I just checked the hours on the site and it reads "Open 8:30-4:30 most days"  I don't even know what to make of that.  And I don't live close either but they lady said I had to come in.  I am just going to go there and hope for the best.  

Laurms15

I got mine one week after our wedding. I ordered two copies one to keep on hand and to send in w/ my passport and the other one to put in the safe deposit box.

felicia220

Do you know if you have to mail in a copy for a passport, or can you just go to the office and bring a copy, because mine expired and I needed to update it anyway so I just figured I would do it after I got married.  

akmackay

I've just had to bring it with me when updating anything- they don't take it.

felicia220

Cool, thanks.  I'd rather not do anything by mail, because I live in a town where there is no mailman, just P.O. boxes and sometimes things get lost.  

ecg129

Yeh, you don't even need to visit - you can send them money along with your names, date of wedding, copy of one of your drivers licenses