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What do you need for your wedding ceremony?
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What do you need for your ceremony?

1.  Identification:
• Driver’s License
• State ID Card
• Military Service or Military Dependent ID Card
• Naturalization Certificate
• Passport
• Alien Registration Card
(formerly known as “Green Card”)
Important!
If a form of identification indicated above is not available, the use of two other identification documents may be necessary to prove identity and age (one with a photograph and one with a birth date.)

Some examples of these types of documents are listed below:

Photograph:
  • School Identification Card
  • Employee Identification Card
Birth Date:
  • Certified Copy of a Birth Certificate
  • Baptismal Certificate
  • Adoption Records

When a marriage applicant has no appropriate identification, a written statement from a third party may be accepted, if the County Clerk feels the statement is appropriate and valid. Please contact L.A. County Clerk Recorder’s Office directly at (562) 462-2191 to explain your particular situation and request their permission to submit such statement if you have no authentic proof of identification.

2.  Proof of Divorce, Annulment, or Death Certificate:
If either party had been married in the past and the marriage has been terminated within 2 1/2 - 3 years from the desired day of your ceremony (license issuance), you must provide documentation regarding termination of your previous marriage:, i.e.  

  • Dissolution of Marriage Judgement
  • Notice of Entry of Judgment,
  • Annulment
  • Death Certificate if your former spouse passed away.  
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