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Going a day early
Probate Office to be closed on Valentine’s Day
Published Friday, February 13, 2009
If you’re planning to get married at the Chilton County Courthouse on Valentine’s Day 2009, you might want to reconsider that idea.
This year, the annual holiday that celebrates love falls on Saturday, meaning the Courthouse will be closed from business. Therefore, Probate Judge Bobby Martin said those couples planning to get married Saturday need to plan ahead.
“You can’t just wake up in love on Valentine’s Day and go down to the courthouse to get married this year,” Martin said. “Our office is closed Saturday. Even if there was someone down here, we would not be able to issue marriage licenses because our computers are down on the weekend.”
One way a person can get married on Valentine’s Day is to go ahead and get a marriage license today and have a minister perform a ceremony tomorrow.
“If you want to get married this weekend, you will need to come (today) or wait until Tuesday,” Martin said.
In addition to the Valentine’s Day falling on the weekend, the Probate Office will also be closed on Monday due to Presidents’ Day. So if you decide to get married over the weekend, you will have to wait an extra day.
Martin said Valentine’s Day is usually one of their busiest days as far as issuing marriage licenses and performing marriage ceremonies. Last year, the Probate Office set a record with at least 12 marriage licenses issued, many of which held ceremonies on the second floor of the courthouse that day.
If you’re superstitious about today being Friday the 13th, you might want to wait a couple of days, but Martin said he still expects a pretty busy day today.
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Posted by TheDude (Michael Wells) on February 13, 2009 at 5:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Waiting till Monday will give the couples a chance to re-think what they are fixin' to jump into.
Posted by November162000 (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 6:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Getting married is the number 1 cause of divorce.
Posted by catfish (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 6:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Waiting till Tuesday will give them even longer to consider the potential consequences. Of course, their marriage could definitely turn out to be better than mine. I'm still a little shell-shocked right now so my outlook on marriage is not the best in the world.
Posted by urentitled2myopinion (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 7 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It should cost as much and take as long to get married as it does to get divorced and many people would rethink the issue.
Posted by catfish (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 7:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh so true UR!
Posted by eagle1 (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 8:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Heck, I've done it so many times I lost count. Let's see, ... Rowena, Shirley, Catalina, Doris, uh, uh
Posted by crazyrednecks (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 10:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
whitetrash
Posted by crazyrednecks (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 1:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I have more education than your whole family
Posted by TheDude (Michael Wells) on February 13, 2009 at 1:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There ya go, kw. You've met your match. Quit while you're ahead.
Posted by November162000 (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 1:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
kw: Do you suppose that crazyrednecks has used his entire vocabulary already? Sounds like he's already used both of his brain cells.
Posted by chilcopch (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 2:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
my goodness graves sound like you cant say anything on here without someone saying something........this is not nice of them......Its Friday 13th and almost V'day for heaven sakes everybody needs to chilax (chill+relax)
Posted by gkeys (anonymous) on February 13, 2009 at 8:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Maybe the work release day was up….time to go check back into jail :-)
Posted by sagill88 (anonymous) on February 14, 2009 at 5:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Valentine's Day is a concocted holiday to boost the financial bottom lines of Hallmark Corp, and the candy makers...get a grip "redneck" and put the bong down!!
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