State Marriage Laws and Information

Since 2010, Open Ministry has been ordaining and helping people all over the world perform weddings, ceremony and other sacerdotal duties. This page focuses on requirements and information for Vermont; Scroll down to the bottom of the page for links to other states.

How to get ordained and perform a wedding in Vermont

If you are planning to get ordained in Vermont or you have been asked to perform a wedding ceremony in Vermont, or simply need to to find an ordained minister in Vermont to perform your wedding ceremony.

This ordination information forVermont is provided below in an easy five step layout which is designed help walk you through the most common steps on registering to become a minister for Vermont and how perform a wedding ceremony in Vermont.

Step 1 - Get Ordained Online for free with Open Ministry Step 1 - Get Ordained Online for free with Open Ministry

Step 2 - Contact The County Clerk Step 2 - Contact The County Clerk

Step 3 - Get registered to perform a Marriage Step 3 - Get registered to perform a Marriage

Step 4 - How to Perform the Wedding Step 4 - How to Perform the Wedding

State Statutes for Vermont

Credentials for Registration in Vermont

Vermont

5144 Persons Authorized to Solemnize Marriages

(a) Marriages may be solemnized by a supreme court justice, a superior judge, a judge of probate, an assistant judge, a justice of the peace, a magistrate, an individual who has registered as an officiant with the Vermont secretary of state pursuant to section 5144a of this title, a member of the clergy residing in this state and ordained or licensed, or otherwise regularly authorized thereunto by the published laws or discipline of the general conference, convention, or other authority of his or her faith or denomination, or by such a clergy person residing in an adjoining state or country, whose parish, church, temple, mosque, or other religious organization lies wholly or in part in this state, or by a member of the clergy residing in some other state of the United States or in the Dominion of Canada, provided he or she has first secured from the probate division of the superior court in the unit within which the marriage is to be solemnized a special authorization, authorizing him or her to certify the marriage if the probate judge determines that the circumstances make the special authorization desirable. Marriage among the Friends or Quakers, the Christadelphian Ecclesia, and the Baha'i Faith may be solemnized in the manner heretofore used in such societies.

(b) This section does not require a member of the clergy authorized to solemnize a marriage as set forth in subsection (a) of this section, nor societies of Friends or Quakers, the Christadelphian Ecclesia, or the Baha'i Faith to solemnize any marriage, and any refusal to do so shall not create any civil claim or cause of action.

Title 18: Health - Part 6: Births, Marriages and Deaths - Chapter 105: Marriage Records and Licenses

Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, eff. Feb. 1, 1967; 1971, No. 22, eff. March 23, 1971; 1975, No. 1; 1979, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 26; 1981, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.); 1999, No. 91 (Adj. Sess.), § 28; 2007, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2009, No. 3, § 9, eff. Sept. 1, 2009; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 147.