Tying the knot in Los Angeles County will be getting a little more expensive, with the Board of Supervisors voting unanimously Tuesday to increase the cost of marriage licenses, civil wedding ceremonies and ceremony witness services.

According to a letter sent to board members by Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan, the county has not substantially changed its marriage license fees since 2009, although the state added $1 to the cost in 2014. Ceremony and witness fees have not changed since 2015.

Logan said the current fees “no longer reflect the actual costs to the RR/CC to perform these services and do not take into account inflationary factors or mandated minimum wage increases.”

As a result, Logan asked the board Tuesday to raise the cost of a standard marriage license from th

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