Marriage License

Kathy 9/18/09 · July 2009

Does anyone know if you need a blood test to get a marriage license? I know that each town is slightly different, but I am thinking this requirement might be a state-wide thing.

mariaebray · July 2009

no you don't..it was done away with in 2003Need your photo ID and whatever your town charges

Blueyezz0530 · July 2009

No you dont

lmills730 · July 2009

Do you guys know if we can go to the town we currently live in (if we are out-of-state) to get the marriage license, and then get married in CT/MA?

ggmae · July 2009

lmills: CT law states that you need to file for the license in the CT town that you reside in OR in the town you will be married in. We got ours in our hometown and then picked it up in the town we're married in. If you are out of state, I'm sure there's a way they could mail it to you afterwards.

banana468 · July 2009

Ditto GG. You may want to call to see what the window is. I know in MA, the issue a friend of mine found is that while he went to get his license before the wedding, it was so close to the date that he had to go to court and talk to a judge to be legally allowed to marry.

lmills730 · July 2009

Hmmm okay...so I guess my question is, we are living in Dallas and are planning on flying up on Friday (in sept 2010) and getting married on a Sunday and then flying out of there to go to Rome for 2 weeks.I know there is a waiting period of 72 hours or so, so we prob can't get it on the day we fly up. So I should probably budget in an additional flight up to CT about a month before to get the marriage license? (since I know most have an expiration date of around 60+ days)Also, we would have to probably budget for FI AND i since we both have to be present?TIA!

ggmae · July 2009

Is there any way that you can fly up a day or 2 earlier so that you don't have to make a separate trip? And yes, both DH and I needed to be there sign our names and take the oath.

lmills730 · July 2009

Hmm...ya I would probably prefer to be up there the Wed/Thurs before to wrap things up anyways...maybe I can see if work will let me take unpaid vacation for those two days (since neither one of us wants to cut the honeymoon short

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ggmae · July 2009

Yeah, if you could get a few days off it'd probably be helpful. Just explain that if you can't get those 2 days off, then you'll have to make an entirely separate trip just to get your marriage license. GL!

starrbuk13 · July 2009

if you do end up making a separate trip, double check the CT expirations. i think you only have 30 days from the date you get the license, but i'm not positive on that...

lmills730 · July 2009

Thanks guys

I would probably appreciate a few days before the wedding anyways to take care of all the rest of things instead of relying on my mom and sister anyways ")

ggmae · July 2009

CT marriage licenses are good for 65 days from date of application.

lmills730 · July 2009

Thanks ggmae! You don't know off the top of your head what the waiting period is if we go up a few days before the wedding?Is it 72 hours?

ggmae · July 2009

I wasn't sure so I looked it up and this is what I found on 3 different sites: [url]http://www.weddingvendors.com/marriage-license-laws/united-states/connecticut/[/url] No waiting period.

You just have to use it within 65 days..that's all we were told upon getting the license and I figure the woman at the town clerk's office would have mentioned a waiting period if there was one.

Whippet8 · July 2009

I work in a town clerks office as my part time job...and usually town clerk's offices do the marriage licenses (ours has a separate vital statistics department because theres a hospital in town)...but my boss is a JP and we've had people show up to the office, ask my boss to marry them, they go down stairs for the marriage license, they come back 15 minutes later, and they get married right then. HTH

lmills730 · July 2009

hmmm so maybe CT doesn't have a waiting period?

Whippet8 · July 2009

I'm guessing not...but just in case, i'll talk to my boss tomorrow about it and let you know!

lmills730 · July 2009

Thanks Melko!I tried looking it up online but there is so much legal jargan (sp?) going on, it makes it almost impossible to understand LOL

melabes9846 · July 2009

CT does not have a waiting period. A friend got the license at 1:00 pm and got married at 9:00 that night. Also, our JP let us know that waiting periods don't occur in Connecticut like some states (I believe MA was one of them, but I'm not positive).

ggmae · July 2009

lmills: If you want to be 100% sure, just call a town clerk in CT and ask. The people at Milford Town Clerk are nice.

203.783.3210 I am pretty sure that there's no waiting period though. But if you want to cover all of your bases, give them a call tomorrow.

lmills730 · July 2009

Thank you !!

Knottie07763429 · July 2009

CT definitely doesn't have a waiting period! We got our license about a week and a half ago and the woman who took care of us mentioned that fact!

lmills730 · July 2009

Thanks Stephy! One of the venues we are looking at is right over the MA border in Holyoke...I think the other girls mentioned that they do have a waiting period in MASS. It will be easier for me to research once we nail down the venue

Whippet8 · July 2009

definately no waiting period in CT

majstikleo · July 2009

We got it the same day in westbrook, CT we went down w/ID you need to know state/country parents birth, their full names and your info, after the ceremony the JOP or whom ever will mail it to the place pay an extre $10 and they mail you a copy

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