Every marriage is issued with a license which serves as registration for the marriage. These license records are always kept in the Vital Statistics office of the municipality where the marriage took place. If you lose your marriage license records, you can always visit this office for true certified copies of the original and you will also be able to look up the records too if you know the license number. However, this process is usually long as there will be forms to sign, requests to be passed through and authorizations to be waited for. There is a whole lot of bottleneck in there.
Instead of accessing marriage license records this way, you can alternatively use the internet for such information. The internet is a central archive of all information for all governments and you can access details for any state and for anyone on the internet. This is not possible if you are searching in the Vital Records office of your state. In your state, you can only pull up files of records in your state alone. With the internet, you have access to the records of the whole country. The only catch is that you will have to pay a token to access this information.
Whenever you need to search marriage license records, you will only have to supply the name of the person you are making a search on and maybe the social security number. With that you will be able to locate the information as well as other public records available in the country. All searches can be conducted in the convenience of your house.