Total and complete fabrication on your part. Guess what happened to my marriage license? No one filed it and it was lost. My wife and I have a marriage "certificate" that is not considered proof of marriage by some jurisdictions, so we tried to get a copy of the real one. Guess what? It doesn't exist in the state of Alabama. What's hilarious is we were married by the Clerk of Court who was a neighbor of my wife when she grew up! She got her REAL ID with it because TN accepted it, and she had a driver's license and SS card with her married name.