Originally Posted by
zipadee
I'm I missing something here, especially the folks who keep talking about taking the marriage certificate to the airport.....they are flying TWO DAYS after their wedding. They won't have a marriage certificate by then. It typically takes weeks for a state to get the official marriage certificate back to the bride.
I don't get why the OP would use the bride's married name for the hold. Doesn't matter whether she's changing her name or not. Even if she was changing her name, there would be no freaking way she could get a new driver's license, passport ANYTHING two days after getting married. Assuming she's getting married on the traditional Saturday, she's flying out on a Monday (which is what I did).
How does a frequent flier make such a bone-headed common mistake and then not at least bear *some* financial responsibility for said mistake? In this case, whether she changes her name or not is immaterial. The point is she's flying two days after getting married and she won't have the needed official documents.
The marriage license = marriage certificate (at least in the state I got married it was). The becomes a certificate once it is signed by the adjudicator and witnesses. That aside, if they are travelling 2 days afterwards, chances are it won’t be certified. Still, don’t think you should be throwing all this back at the OP. Mistakes happen and, especially if he has not been married before, perhaps he did not even think of such logistics but assumed most newly married couples would want to travel under the same name. An easy mistake to make IMO.