Who can perform a Marriage in Waukesha County?
State Statues 765.16 and 765.17 specify who may perform marriages in the state of Wisconsin. 765.16 MARRIAGE CONTRACT, HOW MADE; OFFICIATING PERSON. Marriage may be validly solemnized and contracted in this state only after a marriage license has been issued therefore, and only in the following manner; by the mutual declarations of the 2 parties to be joined in marriage, made before a duly authorized officiating person and in the presence of at least 2 competent adult witnesses other than such officiating person, that they take each other as husband and wife. The following are duly authorized to officiate at weddings: (1) Any ordained clergyman of any religious denomination or society who continues to be such ordained clergyman; (2) Any licentiate of a denominational body or an appointee of any bishop serving as a regular clergyman of any church of the denomination to which the clergyman belongs, if not restrained from so doing by the discipline of the church or denomination. (3) The 2
