I was recently cleaning out some files around the house and found several copies of my marriage license. I had gotten extra copies for…well, I don’t know what for but I thought I might need them sometime. It reminded me of when I went to get my name changed a mere 6 years after the ceremony. I also went by my married name, I just never made it official because I’m super lazy.
Anyway, I decided it was high time to change it. So I grabbed my marriage license, old social security card (after searching high and low for it) and headed off to my friendly neighborhood social security office. I waited and waited and waited some more. When I finally got called she said my marriage license was expired. Um, I didn’t know it needed to be RENEWED! Well, it was expired, they just don’t take licenses over 1 year old. This meant I had to drive to ANOTHER COUNTY to get another copy of my marriage license.
So I walk into the marriage office or whatever, I gave them my information and the lady came back saying that there was no record. THERE WAS NO RECORD OF MY MARRIAGE. She’s saying this as she’s standing there holding a copy of my marriage license. For a fleeting moment I thought that maybe…just maybe we weren’t really married and I had a slight panic attack. Turns out, she was looking in the books, not the computer for the marriage records. Whew. Tragedy averted.
Finally after 30 miles and 2 hours I got to wait for another 30 minutes in ANOTHER social security office and I finally official became Mrs. Randy. It is a good thing I don’t have to renew my marriage license because I really dislike government offices. I’d probably figure out a way to make a fake marriage license. KIDDING GOVERNMENT. KIDDING.
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