Add Your Voice.
Viva Las Oregon is building a statewide coalition of Oregon businesses, wedding professionals, couples, community organizations and individual supporters who believe the second marriage witness should be optional.
Help us Keep Oregon Wed.
A Small Change Needs Broad Support.
Modernizing Oregon’s marriage witness requirement is about more than weddings. It is an opportunity to give couples more choice while supporting businesses and communities across the state.
Give couples greater control over who shares their ceremony.
Preserve a witness while making the second witness optional.
Support Oregon’s growing wedding and hospitality economy.
Help Oregon compete for destination weddings and visitor spending.
Choose How You’d Like to Add Your Support.
We’re inviting businesses, organizations, couples and individual Oregonians to endorse the proposal to make the second witness optional.
Add My Business or Organization.
Oregon businesses and organizations can formally endorse the proposal and help demonstrate that support reaches beyond one company or community.
photographers, officiants, wedding planners, venues, florists, hotels, lodging providers, restaurants, tourism partners, hospitality businesses, local businesses and community organizations.
Add My Name.
You do not need to work in the wedding industry to support this change. Oregon couples, former couples and individual supporters are invited to add their names to the coalition.
someone who married in Oregon, plans to marry here, values privacy and choice, supports Oregon small businesses, or simply believes this law is ready for an update.
Simple. Clear. No Hidden Commitment.
Adding your support means you endorse the proposal to modernize ORS 106.150 by changing Oregon’s minimum marriage witness requirement from two witnesses to one.
You’re saying that Oregon should make the second marriage witness optional.
Endorsing does not obligate you to donate, attend events, contact lawmakers or participate in campaign activity.
With your permission, your name or business may be included in Viva Las Oregon materials showing community support for the proposal.
Tell Us Why You Support the Change.
A name on an endorsement matters. A personal story can matter even more.
Businesses, wedding professionals and couples are invited to share a short statement about why making the second witness optional matters to them.
With permission, selected stories may be featured on Viva Las Oregon or included in materials shared with Oregon lawmakers.
Share Your Story.
Tell us how privacy, choice, wedding tourism, small-business opportunity or Oregon’s current witness requirement has affected you.
Share Your StoryHelp Build the Coalition.
Every endorsement helps demonstrate that support for this change extends beyond a single business, community or type of wedding. Together, we can show Oregon lawmakers that giving couples more choice is good for couples, good for small businesses and good for Oregon.