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| - A Dutch man and a Filipina walk into the marriage bureau in Vegas and they see an Irish bride and groom fully dressed in their wedding regalia ... sounds like the beginning of a joke but it was actually what happened on our visit to Clark County Marriage Bureau. After filling up our pre-application for a marriage license online, we showed up and apart from a pretty short line, we saw that mysterious couple. "I wonder what their story is," we mused. We didn't wait very long for our turn and once we got the window, everything was easy peasy: we just had to look at a print out to verify that the information was correct, hand over the $77 fee for the license (tip #1: bring cash as there is an additional processing fee if you use a credit card), et voilá we had our marriage license! And then ... Oops. We realized that the addresses we had entered online actually appeared as the city that we're from on the certificate. No biggie for me but for my hubby to be with two addresses, it was maybe problematic. We walked out because we didn't feel like lining up again but were sufficiently bothered that the next day, we had to go right back and fix it. They didn't give us much of a problem; the lady at the counter said we could basically write whatever we wanted under place of residence (I was tempted to say Neverland). But we wanted to be sure there were no hitches in our future so we sorted that out.
IF however any of your names are misspelled, that can be quite problematic. We guessed that the couple in full bridal attire probably realized they had a typo right before the wedding and had to go change the license (our research told us that there's no additional fee if you make a change before getting married but there might be one afterwards ... so tip #2: check and double check everything!).
Other tips that might be helpful:
Tip #3: Out-of-towners should know that your marriage certificate won't be immediately available. The "certificate" your chapel gives you is just a souvenir. The minister who conducted your marriage has 10 business days to file. I stalked the Clark County Marriage Bureau website and searched their database everyday to see if our marriage had already been filed. Thankfully our minister at Graceland Chapel filed ours in 3 business days so my stalker behavior was short-lived. Once the marriage is filed, then you can order the certified copy of your marriage certificate. In all likelihood, you'll already be back home by then so they will have to mail it to you. Again, they have 7-10 business days to put your certificate in the mail. Ours thankfully arrived 6 days after I ordered it. If you're on a strict timeline, however, you may want to factor all the worse case scenarios before fully committing to a Vegas wedding.
Tip #4: Despite what Britney's life story suggests, you can't really get married if you're drunk. The marriage bureau will not give you a certificate if you appear drugged or drunk, and supposedly the chapels won't let you go through with it either (we did not attempt to test this). So yeah, I suppose Britney somehow got away with it ... but you're not Britney so don't drink-and-bride.
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