Back on Tuesday, I called Travis Shelton to wish him a happy anniversary. He asked what we were doing that evening, and we ended up going to dinner with Travis, Cheryl, their kids and grandkids. It was 48 years ago on the 18th of December when I was best man at their wedding; ten days later he was best man at mine.
1964 was a good year to get married for us, but according to a story from NBC Los Angeles, one California couple wasn’t so lucky.
In 1964 Norma and Bob Clark had a wonderful wedding in Northern California. Everything was perfect.
Nearly five decades later, the happily married couple, now in their seventies, live in Redlands.
But while getting paperwork in order in case one of them passed away, they made a somewhat disturbing discovery -- they were never legally married, because they had no marriage license.
"I couldn't find it, and couldn't find it for a reason, because it wasn't there," Norma Clark said.
When couples get a marriage license, the person who then marries them must return the license to their county record office, where it becomes the marriage certificate.
The pastor who married the Clark's apparently never did that.
Bob Clark went to the San Bernardino County Hall of Records to try to fix everything.
"I just went in there thinking I could just do it, and she said, 'No, no, you have to have witnesses,'" Clark said.
"Well, you know most people at our wedding are dead. If we had waited a couple more years, we would have been in trouble.”
Luckily, the Clarks had their old maid of honor and an usher in town for the holidays. The four of them, among others, finally made it official.
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