The licence itself, which the officiant completes and signs.

The certificate.

And a record for the county, which has to be returned and recorded within five days.

He asked the officiant twice, carefully, where exactly he was signing.

I teased him about it.

I said something like, “You’re acting like this is a five-hundred-person wedding.”

And he went quiet for about two seconds, and then he looked up and said:

“It’s my first one.