Making It Legal

Lesson 2 of 10 · About 13 minutes

Making It Legal

What does the law ask of me, and who can tell me the rules for this wedding?

Most US states ask for a licence, a declaration before witnesses, an officiant the law accepts, the right signatures and a return on time, and the clerk who issued the licence is the one to ask.

A blank printed marriage certificate framed in flowers, with two empty ovals at the top and lines for the couple's names, the date, the officiant and two witnesses.
Historical witnessMarriage certificate. This certifies that …Currier & Ives · 1875 · Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LCCN 90708871)Public domain (PD-old-100-1923, Wikimedia Commons; Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication)

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  1. The question in front of us
  2. What does the law ask of me, and who can tell me the rules for this wedding?
  3. Five things most states ask
  4. Three ways to be allowed to sign
  5. Five places where the rules catch friends out
  6. Is online ordination right for a Christian?
  7. We are witnesses
  8. The licence, from start to finish
  9. Outside the United States
  10. What if a website and the clerk disagree?
  11. Practice: what the law requires
  12. Fill in your licence checklist

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Ten Lessons, a script builder that holds the couple's ceremony and prints it in large type, an editable script, a rehearsal plan and a licence checklist. Paid once, and the course is yours to keep.

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