Officially Married

Short Story:

After 8 months of Marriage, and 5 months of waiting for paper work we can finally prove we are really really married.

Long story:

Our minister told us that to be sure all the paper work went through properly with the Office of the registrar General, we were to order our marriage Certificate, (wich is also useful in registering for things like Passports, Like I've been wanting to do)

He said while he hasn't seen it often, occasionaly paperwork gets lost. He told us there are only about 5 or 6 people way out in Thunderbay registering everyones birth, death and marriage in Ontario and it can take a long time to get the papers. If paperwork gets lost then a couple does not have proof that they are really married when stuff happens that they need to prove that they are... Thats when bad stuff, gets worse.

He said it was very important that we send away to get our marriage certificate after 12 weeks of marriage... cause if we send for it too soon, we could get lost in some paper black hole. So, way back at the end of August I sent in our request. He warned us it could take some time. The words " snail mail" is not the right term for it.

They FINALLY charged my credit card at the end of November making me think my papers were on their way... I started to question if they were coming at all by the beginning of January.

I've attempted to make a couple phone calls, but I guess in such a very busy overworked office, they don't answer the phone.

Finally 5 months later the long form certificate arrives. I asked for a short form one aswell, but maybe it will come in another 5 months :)