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In North Carolina you get your marriage license immediately when you file it. You need 2 witnesses in NC and the license is valid for 60 days.
There should not be any reason to "call around".
OP..did you get a marriage license before you got married ?
If you're headed down the aisle in North Carolina, you'll need a marriage license. You can get one by filing an application with a County Register of Deeds Office.
You'll both need to appear at the clerk's office, fill out an application, sign it, and pay a license fee, usually $60. You can get your marriage license immediately (there isn't a waiting period).
I'm starting to think they got the license and he told her it was the legal document marrying them.
Well now getting a license and getting married are 2 separate events done by 2 separate departments in the NC government. And yes, she should know.
Well she's been confused by less confusing things than this. And she's obviously confused if she told everyone she was married and is now saying she doesn't feel she is.
Where was the disconnect if she's not confused about something??
There doesn't need to be a ceremony, at least not everywhere. In Massachusetts a friend of mine just met a local bar here with the appropriately empowered official and signed the docs. Married.
Same here is Pennsylvania. It's called a "self-uniting wedding license" (colloquially known as a "Quaker wedding license").
All that's needed to make things "official" is the signatures of the couple who's being married plus those of two witnesses--no clergy, judge, or magistrate need be present. All that must be done afterward is to file the license with the appropriate government entity to make things official in the eyes of the law.
There doesn't need to be a ceremony, at least not everywhere. In Massachusetts a friend of mine just met a local bar here with the appropriately empowered official and signed the docs. Married.
That's true in Colorado, too. No ceremony, just sign the appropriate papers at the county clerk office.
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