After the wedding ceremony your responsibilities are:
- Be certain that two witnesses sign the marriage license (one of the witnesses can be you).
- Sign and seal the license and return it to the Office of the County Judge or Clerk of Circuit Court which issues the license within 10 days after solemnizing the marriage.
- The license may be returned by mail to the Marriage License Bureau as indicated above.
CEREMONY
Couple must have valid license.
(Man should stand on woman's right, and the notary public asks the man as follows:)
"___________________ , do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to live together in the Holy Estate of Matrimony; to love, honor, comfort her and keep her in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, keep you only unto her as long as you both shall live?"
(Man answers "I do.")
(The notary public asks; the woman as follows:)
"____________________ do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband, to live together in the Holy Estate of Matrimony; to love, honor, comfort him and keep him in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, keep you only unto him as long as you both shall live?"
(The woman answers ''I do.")
(If the couple brings rings, ask the man to place the ring on her finger and have them both repeat after you:)
"With this ring I thee wed in love and truth and with all my worldly goods I thee endow."
(Then ask the couple to join right hands and pronounce them man and wife as follows:)
"Inasmuch as________________ (man) and_________________ (woman) have this day consented together in Holy Wedlock and have given and pledged their troth each to the other in the presence of this company, by virtue of the authority vested in me under the laws of the State of Florida, I now pronounce you Husband and Wife."
