You’ve been asking your kids for years to give you a trip to Europe for Christmas. You don’t need any more knickknacks, gift certificates, etc. And this year they finally did! Now you have to get your passport.
I had an extremely excited woman call to get a copy of her marriage certificate from 1964. Guess what? We discovered it didn’t exist. We found the marriage application that had been filled out, but there was no certificate. It seems the minister never mailed the return back in to the office.
So what do you do if you don’t have your marriage certificate? You will need to contact the Office of Vital Statistics main office in Dover. They can issue a delayed certificate. They will use a letter provided by us and some other documents to issue the certificate. The lady got her marriage certificate and had a wonderful time in Europe.
Read more about how to obtain records from the Office of Vital Statistics
Dillwyn And Gigi Parrish Leave Claymont For Their Honeymoon On October 3, 1927.
Tags: Certificate, License, Marriage, Office of Vital Statistics, Vital Record
Oops…You are not married 46 years later! Did the couple agree to stay together!
I keep my certificate in a frame on the wall, just to remind my Hubby it is real !!
LOL. After 2 marriages, I keep my certificate locked safely up in my firesafe.
My problem was when we wanted to take a vacation, needed a copy of my birth certificate and the great County of my Birth didn’t want to cooperate in a timely manner!
We did marry in Europe right after Christmas, but it was too much trouble to get all the documents from Europe certified to be recognized here in USA, so we had another ceremony locally in our home town, problem solved. Better twice than never.
So if in doubt, get the right documents in both countries.
Christmas Julie
Nice share, well written –> tweeted !
Lol just sent this to my friends to have a look at. Thanks for the share buddy.
I better check my birth certificate if its for real. Don’t want to have the same problem as what they have.
Weird story. How come you did not have the certificate; not sure to understand…
Quite the chuckle indeed – imagine all those years and finding out your a free man
Ryan
IT Support Toronto
that’s a bummer!
Funny story. All’s well that ends well.
There was a guy in Texas that had 3 wives that were all ok with it but law was not. He was charged and fined.
Thank you for sharing
It will be so much hepful for me thanx again 
My situation was we both came from the same country but we were were married here in the Middle East. But it seems our Government does not recognize that marriage because certificate was not stamp by our embassy. But at that time our Government does not have embassy here. I guess we should get married again in our country on our 25th anniversary.
Nice. I wonder if my mom has one as well. She is planning to get a passport for her first ever trip out of the country and up to now I haven’t heard back from her application. Reading this article made me think of her.
LOL! after so many years you found yourself to be a bachelor haha. Feels like heaven no ?
Regards
Ok, that kinda sucks. I can just imagine how surprised she was to find out that, technically, she hadn’t been married the whole 46 years she thought she was!
Funny story.
All’s well that finishes well.
This is a nice post. Thanks for it.
thanks for sharing
I keep my certificate in a frame on the wall, just to remind my Hubby it is real !!
Nice story
Nice story.
looks funny but it can happens for any body but the thing is keep the certificate in a frame on the wall to remember that i am a married person…:-)
i wil share in my face bookThank you for sharing
Lesson in this real story is to make sure you have an authentic marriage certificate. The story is kind of funny. But the important this is even without any marriage certificate, they still managed to be together. That’s sweet!!