Mayor Rudy Giuliani often performed weddings at the Marriage Bureau in person.
In 2008 Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Bureau would move from the Manhattan Municipal Building to new quarters in order to provide a more dignified setting for the marriages of New Yorkers, and attract couples who might otherwise travel to Las Vegas to be married, boosting New York's tourist industry.
Each chapel has an abstract painting that matches the walls and hangs next to the lectern from where the clerk performs the ceremonies.
These fees can be paid by credit card or money order payable to the City Clerk.
Fox on the American sitcom Spin City is married at the Marriage Bureau.