California Marriage License Information

What you need to know about the California state marriage license laws and regulations.

California's Deputy for a Day Program allows you to arrange for a member of your family or a friend to perform your civil marriage ceremony.

Text and information about the marriage by proxy law in California.

Video: Nadia Chapman gives tips for getting a California marriage license.

Follow these guidelines if you want to get married during your visit to California.

The State of California has adopted domestic partnership legislation that provides gay and lesbian couples with most of the rights given to heterosexual couples.

Marriage laws in California.

This site of DHS in California has general information about the "requirements for the issuance and registration of public and confidential marriage licenses in California, as well as answer many frequently asked questions regarding the laws pertaining to marriage licenses and ceremonies in California."

This official website gives information about how to get a beach permit to get married on a California beach.

Information provided by the California Department of Health Care Service concerning the requirements regarding ceremony information.

If you are interested in being married in a mansion, or in an adobe, or in the redwood forests, or on a sandy beach, this California government site tells you how to arrange a wedding in a California State Park.

This pdf file on Prison Marriage and Divorce is Chapter 20 of Volume II. It includes general information about prisoner's rights to get married along with specific information for prisoners in California. Scroll to page 20.