AUSTIN – If you’re getting hitched in Texas, get ready to face a stiffer fee for a marriage license. It’s going from $30 to $60 starting Monday. But couples can avoid most of that cost by completing a free eight-hour course that teaches how to communicate better and resolve arguments.

With less than 11 weeks until Election Day, supporters of Proposition 8 are ramping up their field organization and refining their message as they seek to persuade California voters to shut the door on same-sex marriage.

AUSTIN – If you’re getting hitched in Texas, get ready to face a stiffer fee for a marriage license. It’s going from $30 to $60 starting Monday. But couples can avoid most of that cost by completing a free eight-hour course that teaches how to communicate better and resolve arguments.

The cost of your marriage license is going up $30 beginning Monday.

For more than three decades the number of marriages ending in divorce has risen inexorably. That, along with the sharp decline in the numbers getting married, has resulted in a panic that marriage is a defunct institution.

If you’re getting hitched in Texas, get ready to face a stiffer fee for a marriage license.

For more than three decades the number of marriages ending in divorce has risen inexorably. That, along with the sharp decline in the numbers getting married, has resulted in a panic that marriage is a defunct institution.

If you’re getting hitched in Texas, get ready to face a stiffer fee for a marriage license. It’s going up from $30 to $60 starting Monday.

AUSTIN (AP) - If you’re getting hitched in Texas, get ready to face a stiffer fee for a marriage license. The fee for one goes up from $30 to $60 starting Monday.

A majority of California voters oppose a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage, though they are evenly split on the practice itself, according to a poll released Wednesday