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The details: Last month, the board initially approved an increase in the cost of a standard marriage license from $91 to $176. The board was scheduled to give final approval Tuesday but instead voted to send the issue back to the county clerk for review.

The cost of a confidential marriage license, which allows people to marry privately without public record, with no witnesses for the ceremony and with restricted access to the marriage certificate, would have gone up from $85 to $220.

Wedding chapels respond: Alan Katz, a spokesperson for the Wedding Chapel Coalition, argued the increase would prompt people to get married in Orange County, where the fee is $61, and hurt the wedding chapel business in L.A. County.

“The proposed increase was ludicrous,” said Katz, who owns the

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