Getting the marriage certificate myself

Our clerks office won't allow you to pick up your official marriage license until 10 days after they receive it. So even if you drop it off on your own, you likely won't get it back for several days. I would just let your officiant mail it off and relax, post wedding.

I haven’t heard anyone’s taking that long. Our officiant sent ours via USPS. We went in our honeymoon. The week after we got back we went & picked up the certified copy. I had all of my paperwork and my name changed in less than 2 months.

I took my marriage license back to the courthouse myself and it's a good thing I did. The lady working in the office couldn't read our officiant's information so I had to call him to make sure the information about him that we needed was correct. I was also told it was a good thing I didn't mail it in b/c it would've been rejected if I had b/c they couldn't read his handwriting clearly.

And there is no reason to wait on changing your name unless you want to. My husband and I got married on a Saturday, I took our license back to the courthouse Monday, got our certified copies and our copy of our license & went to the Social Security office the same day to legally change my name (they gave me a letter with my new legal name on it so I could take it to the DMV 48 hours later to get my license). When I went back to work Tuesday I changed my name through my company; i.e. my company email and through HR, and I added my husband to my health insurance plan. Wednesday (48 hrs after legally changing my name thorough social security), I went to the DMV to change my license because I got off of work early. On Friday my new social security card came in the mail. In less than a week after our wedding my name was legally changed, lol ...I wasn't able to change my name on our bank accounts and such until a week later on my day off.