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Can Elope Moab
Krista has called Moab home for more than twenty years and has spent nearly that long marrying couples among the canyons, arches, and river corrido…
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Elopement Officiants in Utah
6 elopement officiants serving Utah couples planning an elopement or micro wedding.
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Marry Me SLC
Sierra runs Marry Me SLC out of Salt Lake City with a published menu of flat rates: elopements from $275, full weddings from $475, vow renewals fro…
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Outland Officiant
Thomas Tobin officiates ceremonies across the red rock country of southwest Utah under the name Outland Officiant, with Zion and Bryce Canyon as hi…
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Wild at Heart Officiant Services
Angelee officiates elopements, micro-weddings, and vow renewals across Zion and southern Utah through Wild at Heart Officiant Services, a practice…
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Wilde Heart Weddings
Jenn of Wilde Heart Weddings writes and performs ceremonies for couples in southern Utah and the surrounding desert Southwest, with Zion National P…
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Zion Wedding Officiant
Michael "Mikey" Foley performs ceremonies throughout Washington and Iron counties as Zion Wedding Officiant, working from St. George with a distanc…
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Who can marry you in Utah: the statute, the signature, the deadline
Start with the law itself. Utah Code 81-2-305 — the 2024 recodification of the old Section 30-1-6 — lists everyone authorized to solemnize a marriage: clergy 18 or older acting under a religious denomination's authority, Native American spiritual advisors, judges and court commissioners, mayors and county executives, county clerks and their designees, state legislators, statewide elected officials, and members of Utah's congressional delegation. Couples cannot solemnize for themselves here; someone from that list must conduct the ceremony.
Online ordination clears the bar in practice. Utah maintains no statewide officiant registry, and a friend ordained through an online ministry is treated as denominationally authorized — there is no approval list to join before the wedding day. Prefer a professional? Most county clerk offices perform civil ceremonies for a modest fee, and some counties, including Grand County in Moab, publish rosters of designated officiators.
Two duties determine whether the marriage actually gets recorded. The certificate must name at least two witnesses who were present, and whoever officiates must return the completed license to the issuing county's clerk within 30 days — skipping that step is an infraction under the code, and until the paperwork is filed, no public record of the marriage exists.
Planning budgets too? See elopement packages in Utah.