Thank you! :D We ended up succumbing to the Christmas lights after looking down our street and realizing we were one of a few black holes in the night surrounded by brilliant displays. So we've sort of half-assed it with a couple of nets of lights for the bushes, eight solar-powered plastic snowflakes to line the walk*, and a couple of other strings of lights we haven't put up yet.**
* In Ravenclaw colors. ** In Gryffindor colors. No idea if anyone will ever notice. XD
Thank you! Nah, we've got a friend who's ordained by the Universal Life Church who's officiated at several previous weddings. We went to his apartment, set up a webcam so that our parents could watch, and afterwards went out for a late lunch with friends. :)
Congratulations! We got married by a judge the day before J's visa was expiring, and while we planned at the time on having a big wedding later, we actually liked our quick-and-dirty wedding so much that we just never bothered...
First of all CONGRATULATIONS! Mrs. F*-L*! (starring since this isn't friends locked) 2nd reaction - only in the US could you do the legalities so fast, I believe. Heh.
Each state has their own rules and regulations, and at least in Texas each county has their own procedure and paperwork. One morning before work we dropped by the local sub-courthouse where an officious woman behind a desk checked our IDs and then asked us the exact same questions we'd filled out online, making us wonder why they bothered to put that part online, then asked for a credit card for the fee, printed out the marriage license, excuse me, application for marriage license that had "MARRIAGE LICENSE" written on it in big, fancy, letters, and gave it to us along with applications to vote, Toby's credit card, and the receipt for the fees, and said "Congratulations!"
After that, we had a 72-hour waiting period before we could legally get married. If we'd taken a class on marriage we could have gotten the waiting period dispensed with, as well as saved $60 on the application fee, but when I checked, all the classes they linked to but one were faith-based and we decided we'd rather pay the $60. We could also have gotten a special dispensation from a judge for other reasons - I was maid of honor at a wedding where the bride and groom forgot to get the license ahead of time and had to get a dispensation - but it was only 72 hours, so no big deal.
The license application that looks suspiciously like a license had a place for our officiant to fill in the time, date, and county of the marriage, and to sign it with his name and address. And no place for witnesses to sign, because apparently in Tarrant County, God is your only necessary witness.
As instructed, we've now dropped it in the mail back to the county clerk's office (after scanning a copy for ourselves Just In Case), and they should be recording it and sending us our marriage license, which I assume will be a Xerox copy of the license "application".
And that is how you get married in Texas!
Of course, if you're looking at a common-law marriage, you just have to go in, pay a fee, and swear that you've been living together as married and representing yourself as married for a while and they give you a common-law marriage license without going through all the above foofaraw. It was recommended to us by friends who looked into it to just do the full one, as it makes things easier all around, as nobody really knows what to do with common-law marriages.
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Both on being married, and on the Christmas lights. Yaaay, festivities and congratulations!
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* In Ravenclaw colors.
** In Gryffindor colors. No idea if anyone will ever notice. XD
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>>got married<<
Wait, wut?!
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2nd reaction - only in the US could you do the legalities so fast, I believe. Heh.
You really wanted to know this, I assure you
Each state has their own rules and regulations, and at least in Texas each county has their own procedure and paperwork. One morning before work we dropped by the local sub-courthouse where an officious woman behind a desk checked our IDs and then asked us the exact same questions we'd filled out online, making us wonder why they bothered to put that part online, then asked for a credit card for the fee, printed out the marriage license, excuse me, application for marriage license that had "MARRIAGE LICENSE" written on it in big, fancy, letters, and gave it to us along with applications to vote, Toby's credit card, and the receipt for the fees, and said "Congratulations!"
After that, we had a 72-hour waiting period before we could legally get married. If we'd taken a class on marriage we could have gotten the waiting period dispensed with, as well as saved $60 on the application fee, but when I checked, all the classes they linked to but one were faith-based and we decided we'd rather pay the $60. We could also have gotten a special dispensation from a judge for other reasons - I was maid of honor at a wedding where the bride and groom forgot to get the license ahead of time and had to get a dispensation - but it was only 72 hours, so no big deal.
The license application that looks suspiciously like a license had a place for our officiant to fill in the time, date, and county of the marriage, and to sign it with his name and address. And no place for witnesses to sign, because apparently in Tarrant County, God is your only necessary witness.
As instructed, we've now dropped it in the mail back to the county clerk's office (after scanning a copy for ourselves Just In Case), and they should be recording it and sending us our marriage license, which I assume will be a Xerox copy of the license "application".
And that is how you get married in Texas!
Of course, if you're looking at a common-law marriage, you just have to go in, pay a fee, and swear that you've been living together as married and representing yourself as married for a while and they give you a common-law marriage license without going through all the above foofaraw. It was recommended to us by friends who looked into it to just do the full one, as it makes things easier all around, as nobody really knows what to do with common-law marriages.
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(It is so very useful to know someone like G., isn't it?)
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(Somewhere in my 1997 box I have one of those Universal Life Church ordinations. Noone's ever asked me to marry them, though.)
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I've got one of those, too, but never married anyone. Unlike Toby, who married people twice. (And I left the phrasing that way on purpose. XD)
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Congratulations!
The 'do' itself is the challenge.
Hell with that, the hard part was getting Toby in the first place.
Again, love and luck to the both of you.
Suit cat dances in your honor!
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(You and Toby. Not you and the cold. If you and the cold manage it, mazel tov, but.)
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When C. and I decided to file Common-Law it was during taxes,
Me: guess we're common-law for tax purposes, right?
him: yeah. better back date it a year.
me: happy anniversary.
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