After I sent my follow-up message, I realized that had not copied in the List on my response with the link to the correct information about marriage licenses. I am pasting it below: ***** This is absolutely untrue. Whoever gave you this information was mistaken. Take a look at this site: http://www.nycityweddings.com/services/MarriageLicense.asp I am an Interfaith Minister who does weddings all the way from Manhattan to Montauk on Long Island. You can get your license anyplace in New York State and get married anyplace in New York State. A couple from Canada who want to marry in NY City can cross the border and get a license in northern New York and then come down to NY City to get married. The only requirement is that the officiant (me) has to get the filled out license back to wherever it was issued (not where the wedding took place) within five days of the ceremony. In fact, very few of the weddings I've done (and I'm at about 80 of them by now) have taken place in the same Town or City at which the license was issued. I did one this morning in the Town of Islip with a Town of Brookhaven license. I did one last winter in Manhattan with a Town of Islip license. I did one in the Hamptons with a Brooklyn license. Etc. Etc. Etc. Joy Weaver [email protected] wrote: > In response to the posting about marriage licenses ... > > you have to get your marriage license for where you are getting married. > > I lived in village of Gilbertsville, town of Butternuts, Otsego County but > was being married in the city of Oneonta, Otsego Co, NY...so we had to get > our marriage license at the city of Oneonta's clerks' office. > > You cannot get a license in one municipality and then get married someplace > else...the license has to be from the clerk's office for the place you are > getting married. > > My father lived in the town of Unadilla, Otsego County, but was married in > Sidney, Delaware County...so he had to go to the town of Sidney clerks office > for his license, so his marriage info would be at either the town of Sidney > clerks' office, or at the Albany state vital records office. > Cyndie > >