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In response to
"leave it to Spencer and Heidi to fuck up their fake elopement -- (link)"
by
pigby
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Its a serious PITA to deal with foriegn marriage licenses that many couples have a private marriage here before or after just to avoid it.
Posted by
zeitgeist
Nov 29 '08, 12:18
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with many foriegn govs you need to have special document prepped called an apostille, this is several more pages of stamping and signing.
basically when you or the officiant submits the marriage forms you get or order a 'certified' copy of that record to prove your marriage.
an apostille first requires that document be 'verified' by another department that checks notary signatures.
(tangent: in San Fran the marriage clerks often performed the ceremonies, and they also did the notary verifications so it was quite often the same clerk signed a marriage cert as an officiant, as the court clerk recording the cert, and then as the verifier checking their own signatures)
then you go to the secretary of state office and have the previous forms authenticated.
of course all that is in spanish so you need to have the documents translated by a qualified service to do legal documents.
and you end up with a multipage dosier tied with a ribbon, yup the 'red tape' of folk lore.
so a LOT of my clients who have a baja beach wedding, asians married in their folks home town, even immigrants married for years in so am will simply decide to get married here rather than deal with that, especially long distance and through lawyers.
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