The Louisiana Vital Records Registry is the Marriage License/Certificate repository for all Orleans Parish marriage within the past fifty (50) years. If the marriage is an Orleans Parish marriage but the ceremony was performed more than fifty (50) years ago, you must contact the Lousiana State Archive. If the marriage license was purchased in a parish other than Orleans, you must place your order with the Clerk of Court in the parish where the license was purchased.
Louisiana Vital Records Registry
PO Box 60630
New Orleans, LA 70160
(504) 568-5152 or (800) 454-9570 (recording)
Louisiana State Archives
3851 Essen Lane
PO Box 94125
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9125
(225) 922-2012
To order:
Only Orleans Parish records only from Vital Records Registry or the Louisiana State Archives. For other parishes, you must contact the Clerk of the Court in the parish where the license was issued.