Date on marriage certificate?

View Quoted Comment Lmao right? And I totally did! 2.22.22 ❤️❤️❤️

I think it’s fine so long as you go to the courthouse and fill it all in there on the 22nd or when you go to pick it up you state that it’s for the 22nd. The ceremony doesn’t need to be the same date, but you do need an officiant and 2 witnesses to sign it.

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So the ceremony really means nothing as long as the notary isn't forging the date. If you guys sign the document on the 22nd it doesn't matter what date you had the ceremony on. There are no requirements for a marriage ceremony to be legal other than the person signing the paper correctly and accurately. We did this at the courthouse with a judge and literally all he did was say "so you 2 want to marry each other?" We each said yes and we signed. Our ceremony wont be held until next March but we wont have any legality associated with it.

View Quoted Comment Congratulations! Can you please let me know how this worked out for you? I’m hoping we can do the same as our wedding date is already booked at the venue. We believe in numerology and astrology as well and want a specific date. However since the location is booked we want to keep our date as our official wedding and have the ceremony with guests on the date available from the venue. Please help. Any advice would be appreciated.

View Quoted Comment I too would like to know this! I am stuck on our 10yr anniversary as our official wedding date and plan to go to the courthouse THAT day (a Thursday). But I still would like a ceremony on a weekend within the month. The ideal would be the weekend afterwards but the dates are filling up. Anyways I was thinking of the weekend before and then I came up on this question. If I do a ceremony the weekend before, do I need to pay an officiant if I dont need it to be notarized hmm

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There are times when the wedding reception and legal ceremony are by necessity separated by a short amount of time but in those places people generally know what's happening and why it is legally or culturally necessary. But as a guest in these circumstances I would not want to be kept in the dark because of a superstition or obsession with a date and would not be happy to find out I had been invited to a fake wedding or a reenactment. If you want your date, go right ahead and get married on the date. A delayed celebration of marriage is fine, too, just don't try to pass off the larger occasion as something it's not. People have the right to know what they are attending and to prioritize accordingly.

As for holding the big event ahead of time, the reception is the thank you to guests for attending the actual wedding. Even if you were open, it would make no sense to have the party before the wedding.

View Quoted Comment That is a lot to think about..thank you for your point of view. I honestly was not assuming my guests would be so entitled to that point of view.
All of that is heavily relying on the fact that my guests care whether or not it is "real" or a "reenactment". All of my guests are mostly in the know of the date and it's importance to us. I highly doubt my family and close friends..less than 50 guests..will go home crying knowing it won't be legal for another 4 days. (Also, couples forget their wedding licenses all the time and have to legally file it after the big wedding? I wonder if they call all their guests to tell them it was all a sham)

There are also couples who elope by themselves and then have a celebration of their marriage/love with family and friends... How about couples who have private ceremonies that allow only handful of people... If people are offended that they were not at the "real marriage where we expressed our love to each other" and don't want to celebrate our love whether it be legal or not, I wouldn't want them at my wedding?? I guess I am entitled with my individualistic opinion that the reception is a celebration of our union/love not just a "thank you" to the wedding guests. Is it my culture maybe that I don't see it that way? I've actually never heard of it that way as a thank you lol. You've given me a lot to think about.

Hi! We are wanting to do something similar. I am very sentimental about numbers. The date id like to get married on/have as our anniversary date is a Monday. Did you have your ceremony on 2/20 and sign your paperwork/have the officiant sign on 2/22?


I essentially want to do the ceremony on Saturday and then sign all the paperwork on the Monday right after. Just wondering if that’s what you ended up doing?