With all of the other details to keep track of while planning a wedding, the last piece you'd want to go wrong would be the legal checkbox that is picking up your marriage license.

But for couples marrying in D.C. in the near future, that checkbox got harder to tick the moment the federal government shut down on Oct. 1. Thankfully, a piece of emergency D.C. legislation is now in place to fix the problem — and it's already helped 27 betrothed couples.

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The Let Our Vows Endure (LOVE) Act gives D.C.'s mayor the authority to issue marriage licenses and designate temporary marriage officiants. Normally, those powers lie with the federally-funded Superior Court of the District of Columbia, which is not deemed an essential serv

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