Where To Get A Marriage License In Florida

Marriage Licenses

Clerk marriage ceremony at the courthouse

Florida law requires all couples wishing to get married to apply for a marriage license. Please review the information below for marriage license requirements.

How to Use

The first step in applying for a union license is to complete a Marriage License Application. You can do this in one of two ways:

Save time and apply online using our eMarriage Application. In one case you lot complete the online application, you will receive a confirmation detect containing information about completing the application procedure.
Print the Spousal relationship License Awarding and bring information technology to any of our 6 locations to complete the process.

Please note that for both methods indicated above, the 3-24-hour interval waiting period does non begin until afterward the couple comes together to the Clerk's office and purchases the marriage license in person. Before coming to the Clerk's Office in person, please review all marriage license requirements and our FAQs.

Where to Utilise

Marriage licenses may be obtained at any of our locations:

Orangish County Courthouse: 425 N Orange Ave., Room 350
Apopka branch: 1111 Due north Rock Springs Rd.
Ocoee branch: 475 Story Rd.
Winter Park branch: 450 Lakemont Ave.

Visit our Locations folio for directions and business hours.

Marriage License Requirements

Who Can Apply?

Whatsoever male person or female age 18 or older

Any male person or female person historic period 17 with parental or guardian consent. The older party to the marriage cannot be more than ii years older than the youngest party to the spousal relationship, and a written and signed affidavit must be filed in compliance with F.Due south. 741.04.

If applicant is a modest, both parents must give consent unless the parents are divorced and the custody and command of the kid is placed with 1 parent. All written consent forms must be notarized. If divorced, the parent must present a certified copy of the divorce papers reflecting that they have full legal custody.

Required Documentation

Completed online eMarriage Application or printed awarding
A valid driver's license, state identification card, passport or military machine identification
Social Security number (applies to U.Due south. residents only)

Additional Requirements

Both parties must apply together in person.
If either party has been married previously, he/she must provide the appointment the last wedlock ended.
If the couple take children together born in Florida, they must fill up out the Affidavit of Children Born in Florida form.

Couples are required by constabulary to read the Family unit Law Handbook and sign a statement acknowledging that they have done so before applying for the license. The handbook is available in English and Castilian.

Waiting Period to exist Married

Marriage licenses are issued the same day equally requested as long as all requirements are met. Nonetheless, there is a 3-day waiting flow to exist married for couples who live in Florida, but practise not provide proof that they take completed a premarital preparation form. Please note that the three-day waiting menses does not brainstorm until subsequently the couple comes together to the Clerk's part and purchases the marriage license in person.

Florida couples wishing to avoid the 3-day waiting period must produce a certificate or printed alphabetic character from a premarital course provider indicating they have completed the course. A couple claiming hardship tin can appear at the downtown courthouse location simply and petition a gauge to waive the three-day waiting period when applying for the marriage license in person.

To locate an approved course provider, search the internet for Florida Premarital Course Providers.

A premarital course must be taken within one year prior to applying for a wedlock license.

There is no waiting period for not-Florida residents.

Marriage License Fees

The fee to obtain a marriage license is $86.00.

The fee can exist reduced to $61.00 if they provide proof of completing a premarital preparation course – see Waiting Period to Exist Married.

Forms of Payment

Cash, money order, cashier's check (payable to the Orange County Clerk of Courts)
MasterCard, Visa, Discover or American Express

Please note, there is a $3.50 surcharge added to all credit card transactions.

Non-U.S. Residents and Residents of Other States

If you would like to get married in Orangish County and both parties are not Florida residents, you can come up to our office to buy your wedlock license and get married the same 24-hour interval.

If you lot'd prefer, you can purchase the marriage license only and go married within the side by side 60 days anywhere in Florida.

Please think to return your license within 10 days following the ceremony.