marriage license!

[DakotaK1 1]

Marrige preperation course thats total BS!!!

Thats for ppl that are not very smart,to learn to know what their letting themselves into.Something like that could only come from America.

I would rather pay 90 Bucks than some old bag telling me how to do my marrige and tell me how to live with my husband!

[Dan J 277]

Its just over $100 for a marriage licence in Minnesota or a lot cheaper if you go through a 12 hour course. 12 hours of my time is worth much more than that, so not happening.

We got the licence right away, but we had to wait 5 days before we could use it.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Marrige preperation course thats total BS!!!

Thats for ppl that are not very smart,to learn to know what their letting themselves into.Something like that could only come from America.

I would rather pay 90 Bucks than some old bag telling me how to do my marrige and tell me how to live with my husband!

Haha. Maybe. At our wedding though, the Standesbeamter went on for seriously 35 minutes just babbling about the responsibilities of marriage. I recognize this is very abnormal, but still funny in this case to mention. Maybe he thought when two people marry at a blasphemous age for the country, then they need extra stern lecturing. I should have used the time to take a nap.

[bora bora 1]

My husband didn't know English so the course was not going to happen. I agree with everyone here that it would have been stupid and pointless anyway. We dealt with living together then having a LD relationship - we know what it takes to make it.

I know New York is much cheaper (for marriage licenses). My mom said about ten years ago it was only $25. Even if it doubled it's a lot cheaper than Fleeerda.

[athena_ny 1]

My husband didn't know English so the course was not going to happen. I agree with everyone here that it would have been stupid and pointless anyway. We dealt with living together then having a LD relationship - we know what it takes to make it.

I know New York is much cheaper (for marriage licenses). My mom said about ten years ago it was only $25. Even if it doubled it's a lot cheaper than Fleeerda.

In Albany county, I think it's about 40 dollars now.

We ALMOST considered taking the course at his church (I'm not an official member) so we could pay less but I'm not an official member so we couldn't, AND if we went somewhere else we'd have to pay, which would defeat the purpose of taking it.

I almost wish M hadn't been able to speak English when we got our license ... we had to sit there for 45 minutes because we had to read that dumb book they make you read before they'll even process the marriage license application. It took him forever to read, and his comprehension of it wasn't that great - "Does this mean if you die, I have to pay off all your credit cards?" It was a waste of time, can't imagine what a waste of time the marriage preparation course would be.

THOUGH, I don't think it's a bad idea to get some counseling or whatever before marriage, but anything state sanctioned is usually a bunch of b/s so they can say they're doing something to lower divorce rates or whatever the reason is. I think if you take the course you also have no waiting time until you can get married - this is pretty dumb, too ... as if because I didn't take the course now I need 3 days to think about it. We got our's in advance so we had to wait, but still.

FL has no state income tax so we get screwed everywhere else. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

If you don't take the marriage preparation course in Florida the price is $90 something. You have to wait 3 days to get married.

93.50...plus 30.00 if you have the clerk of the court perform the marriage. So we paid them 123.50 for our's.

[bora bora 1]

I couldn't remember the exact amount, but sounds right.

We didn't pay the $30 because we married in our friend's house and a fellow teacher married us for free (she loves to perform weddings and volunteered).

I still think the price is steep ...but that's IMO.