“Our Marriage Licensed Expired” — Wife Pranks Husband Into Thinking They Need $2K to Stay Married

"He was still in — just not for $2,000."

Jun. 14 2024, Published 2:31 p.m. ET

Possessing a driver's license can get beautiful irritating. In order to high quality for one in the first position, you'll be able to need to carry a bunch of personal identifiers and official documentation — some which can not even be laminated (like your start certificated and social safety card) — to a dungeon of a motor vehicles office somewhere.

Then, when it expires or it's on the brink of expiring, it is not like you'll just convey that very same motive force's license as proof of who you might be — you can wish to get all of those paperwork back to the DMV all over again. It turns out roughly insane that the issuing authority doesn't accept as true with its own documentation for proof of who you are — how did they not know they're the ones who gave it to you in the first position?!

Thankfully, marriage licenses do not perform in that very same way. But there are some individuals who are not aware about this knowledge and they have been resulted in believe, in fact, that those matrimonial paperwork can indeed expire. Like TikToker Kayla Kiker's (@userkaykiker2020) husband, who, on a phone name, used to be in truth convinced his marriage license expired.

Kayla documented her prank in a viral TikTok that's garnered over 2.8 million views on the preferred social media app. "It expired last year apparently," she says at the most sensible of the video whilst in the midst of a phone call together with her hubby as she sits at a dual-monitor work station. "On our anniversary date. I didn't know, I just got the letter in the mail."

Husband: "What?"

Kayla: "I just got the letter in the mail and they said our marriage license expired. November of '23."

Husband: [after being silent for a beat] "I thought it was a one-time thing?"

Kayla: "I guess it's not. I guess you're supposed to renew it every so many years."

Kayla: [continued] "You gotta pay a fee, too. It's expired, they want $2,000 to pay the d--- fee?

Husband: "It's what?!"

Kayla: "It's $2,000 to resume it."

Husband: "Did you are saying $2,000?!"

Kayla: "Yes!"

There's a slight beat on the other line again, and when her husband does being to speak, he doesn't sound all that enthused about the charge.

Husband: "Oh, no, no, and that is in Chambers County, proper?"

Kayla: "Nope, no we did not get married in Chambers County, we got married in Jefferson County." At this point in the video she looks into the camera, mouthing that the county he initially mentioned was correct.

Husband: "No, no, no we went to the Chambers County courtroom area —"

Kayla: "Are you certain?"

Husband: "Yes, I'm sure, I'll name the county court. That's ridiculous, I've never heard of that in my existence. Somebody is scamming, that is ridiculous, there is not any imaginable means."

Kayla attempts to hold in her laughter.

Husband: [continued] "I can perceive paying a charge, no longer no d--- $2,000 that is absolutely ridiculous."

Kayla: "But you are supposed to resume your marriage license each and every two years?"

Husband: "No, no, no I don't think so. I know the d--- county clerk, I know Heather Hawthorne for my part. I'm gonna call her up, that's ridiculous."

Kayla: "Are you certain? I don't wanna get in no bother."

Husband: "Does it say it needs to be renewed?"

Kayla: "Well it says it needs to be renewed, we're not legally married not more."

Husband: "Well I imply ... OK ... I'd like to be legally married to you." [laughs]

Kayla: "I imply I understand but, I do not know what to do with this."

Husband: "Let me call the courtroom area presently ... send me ... text me a picture of the letter."

Kayla: "OK"

Husband: "I'm gonna call the clerk's office at the moment."

Kayla: [smiling] "OK, I'll send you an image."

She hangs up the phone and then looks directly at the person who is standing behind the camera, recording their conversation.

The video then transitions to a photo of the letter in question that she says she received from the County Clerk's office.

It's a handwritten note that simply states: "You owe me 2k you let us expire....County Clerk"

The video then cuts to Kayla sitting down at her desk. She receives a phone call and when she answers it, her husband's voice can be heard on the other line.

"Are you actively trying to kill me?" he asks, which prompts an outburst of laughter from the woman. "I'm already f------ stressed out these days as it's," he tells her as she continues to giggle while he speaks.

"And I simply got off the telephone with the clerk's workplace."

"Did you in point of fact name?" she says, unable to complete her sentence as she begins to crack up laughing on the phone. "What did she tell you?" she asked.

"They told me that after a marriage license has been issued it's good for ninety days and also you don't have to renew it," he says. Then, a communal outburst of laughter erupts all through the room.

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