How to get a copy of a matrimony certificate

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If you filed for a wedlock license in Boston, you can get a certified re-create of your marriage certificate after you are married. You lot have two options:

If you filed for a wedlock license in Boston, you can get a certified copy of your marriage certificate later on you lot are married. Delight notation: The license is in the town where you filed , non where the wedding anniversary took place.

A 3rd of copy requests are for restricted marriage records.  A spousal relationship document is restricted when either person's parents weren't married when they were built-in.

If the record is restricted, only those people listed on the wedlock certificate tin can go a certified copy.

COST FOR ONLINE ORDERS

Spousal relationship certificates cost $fourteen per copy. That cost includes aircraft. You volition be charged an extra service fee of not more than $0.25, plus 2.15%. That fee goes straight to a third party to pay for the cost of card processing. We have more than information well-nigh bill of fare service fees at the Urban center of Boston.

You can place an gild online with your credit or debit card. You will not be charged until the society is confirmed and processed, usually within two to three business days. For new marriages, certified copies are unremarkably available 10 days after the record has been returned to City Hall.

We will contact yous if we need more information to fulfill the society. If nosotros contact you but do not hear back from you within two business days, we will cancel the order without a charge.

PLACE AN ONLINE Club

If you filed for a marriage license in Boston, you lot can get a certified copy of your matrimony certificate after you are married. Please note: The license is in the town where yous filed , not where the wedding ceremony took place.

A third of re-create requests are for restricted marriage records.  A marriage certificate is restricted when either person's parents weren't married when they were born. If the record is restricted, only those people listed on the marriage certificate can get a certified copy.

Recently married?

For new marriages, certified copies are normally available x days later the record has been returned to City Hall.

Complete and print out a union document request form:

Marriage document asking

Certificates cost $14 per copy by mail. If y'all are requesting a copy dated earlier 1870, include a $10 research fee. Pay by check or money club made payable to the City of Boston. If the record is restricted, please also include a photocopy of a valid ID.

Include a self-addressed stamped envelope then we tin mail the copy dorsum to you.

Mail service your completed form, payment, and cocky-addressed stamped envelope to:

Registry Marriage
1 City Hall Square, Room 213
Boston, MA 02201-2006

You volition receive the copy in about two weeks. If you are looking for a certificate dated before 1870, please allow additional fourth dimension.

If you lot filed for a wedlock license in Boston, yous tin get a certified copy of your matrimony document after y'all are married. Delight note:  The license is in the town where you filed , not where the wedding ceremony took place.

A third of copy requests are for restricted wedlock records.  A union certificate is restricted when either person's parents weren't married when they were born. If the record is restricted, only those people listed on the marriage certificate can get a certified copy.

RECENTLY MARRIED?

For new marriages, certified copies are unremarkably available ten days after the record has been returned to City Hall.

To save time, complete and print out a marriage document request form:

MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE REQUEST

You can also fill out the form in person at Boston City Hall.

A Certified Copy of a marriage record is $12 in person. The record is available nigh 2 weeks after it is received dorsum by the Registry later the ceremony. We accept cash, credit cards, pinless debit cards, and checks or coin orders made payable to the City of Boston.

If you use a credit card or pinless debit card, at that place is a non-refundable service fee of 2.5% of the full payment, with a $i minimum. This fee is paid to the menu processor and not kept by the City. If your debit carte du jour requires you lot to enter your pin to process a payment, y'allCANNOT use it to pay your fee.

PLEASE NOTE:
  • We only have records for spousal relationship where the couple filed for the marriage license in Boston Urban center Hall. Delight call back, information technology is based on where y'all filed, not where the wedding ceremony ceremony took identify.

Bring your $12 and the completed marriage certificate request course to the window labeled "Marriage" at the Registry Sectionalisation:

1 City Hall Square, Room 213
Boston, MA 02201-2006
Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.k. to 4 p.one thousand.

If you were married recently, your certificate is available as soon every bit we receive and register your marriage license.

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Restricted records

Massachusetts General Law only allows certain people to get a copy of a restricted nascence, spousal relationship, or death certificate.If a record is restricted, only those people listed on the record tin can become a certified re-create.

You need a court guild to become a restricted record when you are not listed on the tape. Learn more about the law.

Desire to correct or add info on a spousal relationship certificate?

Call the Registry Depositions and Corrections Office at 617-635-4182 for more information.

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    Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.yard. Closed holidays (see our online options)