{"id":283210,"date":"2025-10-07T04:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283210\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T04:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:34:09","slug":"la-county-pauses-plan-to-increase-marriage-license-cost-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283210\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County pauses plan to increase marriage license cost \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business owners in the wedding industry banded together to share their disapproval of Los Angeles County leaders\u2019 plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/orange-county-marraige-license-los-angeles-county-fee-increase\/3783722\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increase the cost of marriage licenses.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors announced a 93% increase in public marriage licenses, raising the cost from $91 to $176. Confidential marriage licenses are slated to increase from $85 to $220.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEighty-five dollars is understandable; $220 can put us out of business,\u201d said Dalia Cuevas, who runs Tina\u2019s Wedding Chapel in Van Nuys.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Katz, who owns the Cute Little Wedding Chapel in Long Beach, started a campaign that includes others in the wedding industry to fight back against the plan. He and several others spoke out at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting and met with the LA County Registrar Recorder\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to stand up and really put our voices out there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Following their discussions, the County Registrar Recorder\u2019s Office told NBC4 it pulled the proposal for further review, just a day before it was set to be voted on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes we don\u2019t, we feel like we\u2019re too little and the government isn\u2019t going to pay attention,\u201d Cuevas said. \u201cBut the fact that they did and we\u2019re voicing our concern made a difference, is really beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Registrar\u2019s Office, marriage service fees have not been updated in more than 10 years. It adds that any new costs would help offset rising wages, inflation and technology updates.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear when the Board of Supervisors will reconsider cost increases for marriage licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business owners in the wedding industry banded together to share their disapproval of Los Angeles County leaders\u2019 plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,6080,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-283210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-county","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115331024263781997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}