Do I get my license returned automatically or do I have to buy it? Really worried!

Re: Do I get my license returned automatically or do I have to buy it? Really worried!

• aimers1525 member

  

  November 2011 edited December 2011

  I was worried too. The priest just gave us something similar like you said. I went online to the Cook County Clerk's office website and ordered a copy of the certificate and it came a week or two later. We had to give our church our copy of the marriage license, so I think the church sent that back with a confirmation that we were married.
  
  HTH!

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• kbutcher9

  

  November 2011 edited December 2011

  Thanks! So the county never actually sent something to you after he sent it in, you had to purchase it?

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• bgilman member

  

  November 2011 edited December 2011

  you have to buy  copies. The priest send  it in and IF you  bought them ahead of time then you get  them in the mail. It you did not buy copies  when you  got your marriahe lisence then you do not get any thing.

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• fashionx member

  

  November 2011 edited December 2011

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_illinois-chicago_license-returned-automatically-buy-really-worried?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:72Discussion:5e9cdf25-c457-4892-b095-c69e74aba59dPost:043c7caf-ce54-482c-b192-c0d31152f9af">Re: Do I get my license returned automatically or do I have to buy it? Really worried!</a>:
  [QUOTE]you have to buy  copies. The priest send  it in and IF you  bought them ahead of time then you get  them in the mail. It you did not buy copies  when you  got your marriahe lisence then you do not get any thing.
  Posted by bgilman[/QUOTE]
  
  <div>Yes this, they only mail copies if you purchased copies in addition to the actual license. Otherwise they don't send anything.</div>

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• MrsMLRB

  

  November 2011 edited December 2011

  If you are really worried about this, I would go in person to get copies of your marriage certificate. We took ours in the day after we got married and ordered our copies then.

  

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• hz80408 member

  

  November 2011 edited December 2011

  I wasn't married in Cook county, so I can't help on that end...but for insurance; are being added to his or is he being added to yours?
  
  My insurance also gave me 30 days from the date of the wedding to update or opt out of my current insurance plan.

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• kbutcher9

  

  November 2011 edited December 2011

  Thanks everyone! I have copies now yay - I will be switching to his insurance and I'm hoping that's easier than everything that had to do with the wedding.
  
  Speaking of stressful, difficult things I just found out that I was supposed to notify the Secretary of State within 10 days that my name is changing....I had no idea, what does this mean now? Will I just get a verbal scolding or what happens?  A friend of mine got married in July and hasn't changed her name yet and she's waiting until after a trip in February.

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