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A Maury County couple is ready to take the plunge, if only they had someone to marry them.

Kali Shelton, 24, and LaQuinton Madison, 32, of Columbia have been engaged to be married for the past year and a half. They fell in love at first sight nearly two years ago, Shelton said, and picked Monday, July 6 as their wedding date.

“We’ve got the the wedding dress and the tuxedo,” Shelton said.

In late May, the couple scheduled to have their wedding officiated Monday at the Maury County Clerk’s office. The ceremony was set to occur at 10 a.m. in the Tom Primm Commission Room at 6 Public Square.

Monday, Shelton received a phone call from the Maury County Clerk’s Office informing her the office would no longer be able to officiate their marriage.

“We know we can get a license, that is not the problem. The problem is trying to find someone to perform the ceremony,” Shelton said.

The call came after the County Clerk’s decision to stop officiating marriages last Friday, the same day of the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling.

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All of the County Clerk offices in southern Middle Tennessee are not offering to officiate marriages, although all are offering licenses.

“I didn’t think it would have an impact on us,” Shelton said. “There are gay people in the world; I have no problem with them. That is their business.”

The couple is looking into other options for a marriage ceremony, including the The First Family First Baptist Church.

“Its hindering people to get married in these counties,” Madison said.

Friends and family of the couple had already scheduled to take time off from work to celebrate the marriage.

”There is a lot of money invested to it, and we basically have until the sixth to find somebody,” Madison said.

Maury County Clerk Joey Allen recommended couples contact “any preachers that are not associated with the county government.”

The office decided to stop officiating marriages because, “It was going to cause us so much more of an influx of work, it just seemed like a good time to stop it all,” Allen said.

The previous Maury County Clerk, Nancy Thompson, did not officiate any marriages during her service, said Allen.

Shelton works as a call agent for IBEX Global and Madison works at Stoney’s Auto Salvage. The couple has been friends since 2006 and started dating in January 2013.

“They are my better half, I can’t live without either of them,” Madison said of Shelton and her son, Trizden.

The couple can be contacted by phone at (901) 568-9348, they said, if you have any ideas, they said.

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