anita + doug – the city hall wedding

In this town, there are a zillion ways to do a wedding. But probably the one way everyone can name is “City Hall”. And I bet a lot of people wonder what it’s really like to get married at City Hall…

Well, Anita and Doug took the plunge that way last week and they asked that I join them and record it for them. So this how it works…

First of all, you don’t really get married at City Hall, you get married at the Municipal Building which is across the street from City Hall.

It takes a couple of trips so don’t plan on just walking in the door and getting married.
And of course you gotta pay da man…

Check it out, they HAND SIGN the certificate at no additional charge!! Now that’s service!
Then after you do the paperwork, you stand in line and await your turn.

Now if you recall from the images above, the wedding ceremony itself costs $25. Since the ceremony takes about 60 seconds, it makes the woman below one of the highest grossing officiants in the state. She’s pulling it in at a rate of $1500 bucks an hour!

But she does do the “husband and wife” thing and so for a split second – you get to feel like this. Which is pretty cool.

Until she goes, “Ok, you’re done. Next!”

Here’s the view from outside the Chapel.

aka room 287.

Anita and Doug were great. Doug was just so diggin it all.

The rain kept us under shelter for most of our session.

But it did let up enough at one point for us to skip on over to the fountain at City Hall to grab a few shots there.