How we verify
Official sources only. A county’s data comes from its clerk’s, court’s, or county government’s own published pages — or from the official state source where the state publishes the rule. Not from wedding blogs, not from other directories, not from search snippets.
A verified date on every record. Each county page carries the date its data was checked against the source, and a link to that source. If you open the source and it disagrees with us, the source wins — tell us through the Corrections page and we will re-check.
Unknown stays unknown. Counties publish unevenly: most publish the license fee; far fewer publish whether they perform ceremonies or what those cost. Where the source is silent, the field is blank and shown as “Not published by the county.” We never fill a gap with a neighbouring county’s figure, a state average, or an estimate.
Conflicts are flagged, not smoothed over. When two official pages from the same county disagree, we record the figure from the more authoritative page and note the conflict until the county settles it.
Vendor money never touches county data. Featured vendor listings, when they launch, will be labelled “Featured,” and no payment can change a fee, a rule, or a verified date on any county page.
Re-verification. Fees change — legislatures raise them and clerks republish schedules. We re-check counties on a rolling basis, largest first, and the verified date always moves to the latest check.