DC SUPERIOR COURT’S FAMILY COURT TO PERFORM 28 WEDDINGS ON 2.14

WASHINGTON DC – In honor of Valentine’s Day, and the number of requests for weddings on that day, the Court is doubling the number of weddings previously performed and will perform fourteen weddings in each of its two ceremony rooms this Friday, February 14, 2014, for a total of 28 weddings.

“We are pleased to accommodate this number of couples who want to have this special date as their anniversary date. I appreciate court staff stepping up and making this effort so that we can perform so many weddings on a single day,” said Chief Judge Lee Satterfield. “We expect to see a lot of smiling faces this Friday, on the faces of the newly-married couples, their friends and family, and court staff who so enjoy being witness to this special time in a couple’s life.”

The DC Superior Court’s Marriage Bureau processed over 5000 marriage license applications per year in recent years, over 7500 in 2013. Over 2400 couples were married at the courthouse last year.