0 marriage licences filed in 92 of Georgia’s 159 counties have reached us in the last 30 days. On the record, couples here marry a median of 10 days after the licence is filed, and nine in ten within 38 days — so most of those weddings are still to come.
Read that precisely. We do not hold anybody's wedding date in advance — there is not one forward-dated ceremony in our Georgia records, and there never has been. What we hold is the licence, which is a public filing, and a lead-time distribution measured on 8,087 past records. Everything below is one of those two things. Nothing is a schedule.
Licence filings received so far in each window, then the weekly rate taken from a settled window — the 90 days ending August 3, 2026, old enough that ninety percent of it has reached us. The recent columns are the useful ones for lead generation and the settled column is the one to quote.
| County | Last 7d | Last 30d | A week (settled) | Newest filing |
|---|
“Withheld” means that county filed fewer than 25 licences in the settled 90-day window, so a weekly rate from it would be noise rather than a number. The raw counts are still shown. 91 further counties have filings in our history but nothing in the last 30 days: Chatham, Forsyth, Hall, Richmond, Catoosa, Houston, Henry, Clayton, Coweta, Douglas, Paulding, Bibb, Carroll, Fayette, Barrow, Whitfield, Jackson, Effingham, and others. That may mean a quiet month or a clerk who has stopped publishing; we do not guess which.
Measured, not assumed. We took every Georgia record at least 180 days old — long enough for the signed licence to be returned to the clerk and scraped — and subtracted the licence date from the recorded ceremony date. n = 8,087.
| Share of couples married within | Days |
|---|---|
| 25% of couples | 4 |
| Half of couples (median) | 10 |
| 75% of couples | 22 |
| 90% of couples | 38 |
| 95% of couples | 53 |
96.4% of these ceremonies fall within 60 days of the licence. We could not verify a statutory expiry for Georgia as of 2026-09-22, so we do not state one — and the 3.6% that run past 60 days is consistent with there not being one.
A couple who filed a licence yesterday has, on this evidence, about 10 days before the ceremony and a 4-to-38-day window around it. In that window they still need an officiant, and often a photographer, and sometimes rings, flowers or a room. By the time the wedding is announced anywhere else, that window has closed.
That is the only claim being made here. It is not a promise that any particular couple is shopping, and it is not a list of people who want to be contacted — it is a public filing with a measured clock attached to it. Roughly 19.7% of matured records show a ceremony on the licence date itself, so a share of any recent batch has already married.
Nobody is listed here yet — we would rather show you an empty slot than a directory we padded out. One officiant and one photographer per county, shown on this page. If you work courthouse weddings in Georgia, tell us and we will put you in it.
Ask about the Georgia slot →Initials only — that is the line on every public page here. The expected window is the licence date plus 4 to 38 days — the 25th to the 90th percentile of the measured distribution above, not a date anybody told us.
| Couple | County | Licence filed | Ceremony expected |
|---|
“Recorded” appears only where the clerk has returned a ceremony date later than the licence date. A record whose ceremony date equals its licence date is not shown as a wedding: for a freshly-scraped filing that value is a placeholder, and treating it as a ceremony would put a wedding on a couple who has not had one.
Subscribers see the full list — names, county, licence date, any recorded ceremony date, filterable by county and date window, with a CSV export. Open the subscriber feed or see plans.
In our records the middle half of couples marry 4 to 22 days after the licence is filed, with a median of 10 days and 38 days covering nine in ten. 96.4% of ceremonies fall within 60 days of the licence. Measured on 8,087 records old enough for the ceremony to have been returned to the clerk — at least 180 days. A further 19.7% of matured records carry a ceremony date equal to the licence date and are excluded from those percentiles, because for a recently-filed record that is a placeholder rather than a same-day wedding.
We could not verify an expiry period in Georgia law or on a probate court's own page as of 2026-09-22, so we do not claim one. What we can say is what the records show: 96.4% of measured ceremonies happen within 60 days of the licence, and the remainder run longer — which is consistent with a state that does not force the deadline.
0 have reached us so far. That is not the final figure: we model that 42.1% of a 30-day window has arrived by this point, because clerk records reach us with a median lag of 20 days and a 30-day-old filing is only 66.7% likely to have landed. For a rate you can rely on, use the settled window: see the per-county table.
Not on this page. Public pages show initials only. The county, the licence date and the expected ceremony window are public here; full names, the licence date and any clerk-recorded ceremony date are in the subscriber view with a CSV export.
No. It covers 92 of Georgia’s 159 counties — 91 of Georgia's 159 counties have ever filed into our records. Nothing here should be read as a Georgia total.
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