After 61 years, couple finds out marriage is invalid

Betty Jean, 81, and Charles, 85, Morrison, hold her 1957 wedding dress. They will remarry Saturday, Sept. 22, because their original license has been lost.

Charles and Betty Jean Morrison will be married for the second time this Saturday in a double wedding with their son after discovering their marriage license has been lost.

Betty Jean, 81, and Charles, 85, Morrison, hold her 1957 wedding dress. They will remarry Saturday, Sept. 22, because their original license has been lost.

Charles and Betty Jean Morrison on their wedding day in 1957; their marriage license has been lost and after 62 years, they're marrying again to have legal proof.

A photocopy of Charles and Betty Jean Morrison's wedding announcement from 1957 sits next to the New Jersey response saying their marriage certificate never existed.

Betty-Jean Morrison, 81, still has the wedding dress she wore when she married her husband Charles, 85, on Sept. 21, 1957.

Betty Jean, 81, and Charles, 85, Morrison, hold her 1957 wedding dress. They will remarry Saturday, Sept. 22, because their original license has been lost.

Betty Jean, 81, and Charles, 85, Morrison, hold her 1957 wedding dress. They will remarry Saturday, Sept. 22, because their original license has been lost.

Betty Jean Morrison, 81, still has the wedding dress that she wore when she married her husband Charles, 85, on Sept. 21, 1957.