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Bill Cochran

Say "I Do" Your Way

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Rev. Bill Cochran is the owner of Say “I Do” Your Way. In this company, Bill & his wife Joyce offer their services as wedding officiants and pre-marriage Counselors.  They have been working with couples for the past thirty-nine years and have conducted hundreds of weddings. Bill also serves as a trainer for Life Innovations certification of counselors and clergy in the Metro Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia area. His extensive background in marriage and pre-marriage counseling has prepared hundreds of couples to navigate the tough issues of relationship building.

Over the years, Bill & Joyce have built an exciting and fulfilling marriage relationship. Thus they see weddings as the greatest event in life. Helping other couples to share the same positive experience they enjoy in marriage is their primary goal. They LOVE weddings!

Where do we get a marriage license?

Host: Where do we get a marriage license?

Rev. Bill Cochran: Well the general answer to that is within the jurisdiction of which you are getting married. I happened to work in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC and so each one of those has different answers because I am sure wherever you are getting married might have a slightly different answer.

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Host: Where do we get a marriage license?

Rev. Bill Cochran: Well the general answer to that is within the jurisdiction of which you are getting married. I happened to work in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC and so each one of those has different answers because I am sure wherever you are getting married might have a slightly different answer. But let me use those as examples. In the State of Virginia, you can get a marriage license at any courthouse, it is valid through out the State. In Maryland you have to get it at the courthouse in the county that you are getting married in, regardless of where you live or where you are coming from.

In the District of Columbia there is only one place, one district and you have to go to courthouse and get yours there. So it's very wise for you to check in, hopefully your wedding officiant can help you with that, but check in with the courthouse where you are getting married and find out what their rules and guidelines are. They also have different rules as to how long the license is valid. DC, it's indefinite. In Maryland Virginia they have varying restrictions and then other places have the amount of time you need to wait after applying for the license before it becomes valid.

So because everybody has their rules it's important for you to know what the rules are when you are getting married. There are several websites you can find if you will go into a search engine and find -- maybe type in 'marriage license in' and then put the name of your state or county or whatever and it should take you right to some of those answers.

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