do you have a copy of your marriage certificate?

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We have to provide proof of marriage for me to stay on DH's health insurance.

We got married in England and I don't know where our marriage certificate is. I can only imagine how long it is going to take to get a copy of our marriage certificate and we only have 10 days to submit proof. 

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Jan 15, 2014 9:37:22 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

Yes.
Call the place where you got married and ask how to get a copy, and then work backward from there to get it expedited.

It is going to take longer than 10 days to do that though. 

[demandypants]

Yikes, good luck with getting a replacement. I have ours, and the fancy triple sealed version in our fire box.

[Vespasia]

No, and this reminds me that I should order one. We've been married over a year but I never needed a copy for anything.

[mominatrix]

yes.
we have a fireproof box where we keep birth certificates and other important papers.

[eclaires]

Yes, it's with all of our birth certificates and such in a fireproof box.

[rosiedozie]

Yep - but we only got married 5 years ago. It's the document that I needed to do all of my name change stuff.

[mrsukyankee]

Yup. We do. Here's the link you need: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/.

[Kore]

I have the copy they sent us when we got married in a file with our passports & birth certificates. Right next to the stove. Safe!

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Jan 15, 2014 9:45:36 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

Yup. We do. Here's the link you need: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/.

THANK YOU!!!

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Two marriage licenses and one divorce decree. I need them all because my name doesn't match my birth cert. It's fun.

[mrsukyankee]

@septimus...any time. If you have any issues with sending to US, let me know and I'll give you my address and then FedEx it to you.

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Jan 15, 2014 9:49:10 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

@septimus...any time. If you have any issues with sending to US, let me know and I'll give you my address and then FedEx it to you.

Only 23GBP to expedite :-)

DH thinks he knows where it is, but I haven't seen it in YEARS, since before we moved. I've got all the kids birth certificates so that is the easy part. 

[orangeblossom]

Yes, I do know where it is. I've had to use it a couple of times, so I try to make sure I always have a copy.

What I really need to do is a get a safe for it, and all of our other important papers.

Good luck getting it.

[lys]

Yes, in our file.

[secretlyevil]

Yes, we have multiple copies. I requested them at the time when the license was sent to the state.

[msmerymac]

Yes we have a box with our passports, birth certificates, SS cards, marriage certificate, insurance information, and tax returns.

[cattledogkisses]

Yes, in our document safe along with our birth certificates, SS cards, wills, POAs, and other important docs.

I don't know how hard it is to get a marriage certificate from abroad, but H wasn't born in the US and OMG was it a pain to get a copy of his birth certificate (he gave the original to the Army when he joined... facepalm).

[laurenpetro]

yes. i have several copies.

[earlgreyhot]

Jan 15, 2014 9:43:09 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

yes.
we have a fireproof box where we keep birth certificates and other important papers.

Same. Plus our passports and and a hard drive with photo backups. 

That said, I'm not sure if its the super official version. It was good enough to add DH back when we got married. But when he switched jobs I'm pretty sure he wasn't asked to verify. But his company is pretty liberal so domestic partnership is allowed. 

[wanderlustfoodie]

I'm not exactly sure where our original is (I can think of a few different "very safe places" where I would have put it) but I have a pdf of it saved to multiple computers and emailed to myself.

[AJL]

Yep. I have a few copies.

[rugbywife]

Jan 15, 2014 9:40:20 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

yes.

i have several copies of all the certificates - birth, marriage, etc - that we need

Yep, me too, I ordered 4 copies of our marriage cert. 

[ESF]

Yes. I've always wondered if people ever need them again. Apparently they do, so I'll be hanging on to it.

[emilyj]

Yes, in our fireproof safe. That's where all our important documents (birth certificates, passports, etc) are.

[tef]

We do, but we also need them for the adoption process. I had it anyway, but having an extra (gift from county) was one less thing I had to order, lol.

[jena]

It's framed and hanging on our bedroom wall.

[aurora]

We had to do that (verify insurance) recently. It seems odd to me since we've been married and I've had the same job for 8 and 7 years now. But, we had other options we could have used if we didn't have our marriage certificate. Do you not have any other options?

[statlerwaldorf]

Yes, I keep it with the birth certificates. I always worry about losing DH's birth certificate since he wasn't born in the US.

[passthewine]

Yep, along with the one from the church, our SS cards, birth certificates, passports and some other stuff in a fireproof lock box.