Houghton County Mulls Offering Same-Day Marriage Licenses

A wave of same-day marriage license requests following the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage has some counties looking at raising the cost of such a license.

That’s not the case in Houghton County where same day marriage licenses are not available.

There is a three day waiting period to pick up the license even though the license can be processed the same day…according to Houghton County Clerk Jennifer Lorenz.

The Houghton County Board of Commissioners discussed establishing a same-day marriage license option and a motion was presented by Commissioner Anton Pintar to offer one for $20.

The motion failed to pick up a second so the issue was dropped.