marriage certificate

[abbie 0]

hello everyone i just get married and we wanted to submit an aos application .my problem is we dont have marriage certificate yet.how can we get it.we get married here in california hope someone help us.thanks .god bless

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Call or go to wherever you bought the marriage license and ask them.

[payxibka 10,045]

hello everyone i just get married and we wanted to submit an aos application .my problem is we dont have marriage certificate yet.how can we get it.we get married here in california hope someone help us.thanks .god bless

You or the officiant should have submitted to your local government for recording... They typically send out the "certified" version after they have written it in the "book".

[Nik+Heather 121]

hello everyone i just get married and we wanted to submit an aos application .my problem is we dont have marriage certificate yet.how can we get it.we get married here in california hope someone help us.thanks .god bless

How long ago did you get married? Did you request a certified copy?

Here's the link to the California marriage license/cert stuff.

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdeathm...es/default.aspx

Hopefully someone from Cali will chime in...some of the things on those pages seem a bit preposterous to me.

[abbie 0]

hello everyone i just get married and we wanted to submit an aos application .my problem is we dont have marriage certificate yet.how can we get it.we get married here in california hope someone help us.thanks .god bless

How long ago did you get married? Did you request a certified copy?

Here's the link to the California marriage license/cert stuff.

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdeathm...es/default.aspx

Hopefully someone from Cali will chime in...some of the things on those pages seem a bit preposterous to me.

we are married 7 days ago.so we need to ge to california civil registry to get the marriage certificate?thanks again

[Nik+Heather 121]

Dunno what you need to do for California. I linked the source I googled. I'm not sure that it automatically comes in the mail from reading the FAQs, but there was a link in there to request a marriage cert.

Or ask your officiant how it all works.

7 days seems quite fast to be expecting one yet.

[shend 0]

Ours took almost 3 weeks or so before getting the "certified copy" from the county clerk (LA county). "They" told me that they are backlogged so it takes all that time.. I dunno about others experiences but that's what happened to us.

[Chris Dragon 0]

Ours took almost 3 weeks or so before getting the "certified copy" from the county clerk (LA county). "They" told me that they are backlogged so it takes all that time.. I dunno about others experiences but that's what happened to us.

In LA County we got married on 6-21-09 using the "confidential" form of marriage license that doesn't require witness signatures or let companies mine our license information to solicit us. The license itself says it should be delivered by the officiant or mailed by the officiant, but they didn't question the fact we delivered it ourselves. We took it to the Beverly Hills "County Clerk"'s office because the Van Nuys county clerk said the Beverly Hills office tended to have a short line. Indeed, the Van Nuys line was over an hour long while Beverly Hills had only one person in front of us. The clerk there said LA does not grant immediate certified copies of the license but that if you bring in a pre-paid $17 "express mail" stamp (it actually looks like a large postage stamp) purchased from the post office, they will use it to send your license back express mail. I found it rather odd we couldn't just pay them to buy their own express postage online, (the Van Nuys clerk had said we could pay for express mail but did not say anything about bringing our own stamp) but luckily it wasn't a far walk to the post office, then back to the clerk with the stamp.

The clerk told us that the license would be sent to the Norwalk office and arrive there by the next day. I asked if it would save time if we took it to Norwalk directly and she said it wouldn't make much difference. She said it would take two weeks to process even with the expedited stamp, which is the same thing the Van Nuys clerk told us. Surprisingly, it was processed and mailed to us in only four days (on the 25th). I didn't see it until the 30th, but I wasn't checking mail every day, and then it was a scramble to get the rest of the paperwork ready that I hadn't expected to need until at least a week later. I read somewhere that LA will usually process certificates with the express mail postage stamp before other certificates, and in our case I think that must have been true, but I'm surprised both clerks didn't know that when I specifically asked about it.