Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 43-8: Endorsement and return of license

A. The person performing or solemnizing the marriage ceremony

shall, immediately upon the completion of the ceremony, endorse upon

the license authorizing the marriage:

1. His or her name and official or clerical designation;

2. The court of which he or she is the judge, or the

congregation or body of which he or she is pastor, preacher,

minister, priest, rabbi or dignitary; provided, that the authority

to perform or solemnize marriages shall be coextensive with the

congregation or body of which he or she is pastor, preacher,

minister, priest, rabbi or dignitary; provided further, that all

marriages solemnized among the society called Friends or Quakers,

the spiritual assembly of the Baha'is, or the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter Day Saints, in the form heretofore practiced and in use in

their meetings shall be good and valid. One person chosen by such

society, assembly, or church shall be responsible for completing the

marriage certificate pursuant to this section in the same manner as

a minister or other person authorized to perform marriages;

3. The town or city and county where the court, congregation,

body, society, assembly, or church is located; and

4. His or her signature along with his or her official or

clerical designation.

B. The witnesses to the ceremony shall endorse the marriage

certificate, attesting to their presence at the ceremony, with their

names and post office addresses.

C. The persons who have been married in the ceremony shall

endorse the marriage certificate with the names by which they are to

be known from the time of the marriage, as evidenced on the marriage

license.

D. The marriage license, along with the completed marriage

certificate shall be transmitted to the court clerk who issued the

license and certificate for recording within the time period

required in Section 20 of this title.

R.L. 1910, § 3890. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 298, § 2, emerg. eff.

June 24, 1971; Laws 1989, c. 333, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 2006,

c. 311, § 4, emerg. eff. June 8, 2006; Laws 2022, c. 241, § 4, eff.

Nov. 1, 2022.