Professional marrier has seen all kinds of love: COMMISSIONER: Her calling began in 1988, and two of her first customers were the Palins.

Byline: Andrew Wellner

Feb. 2--WASILLA -- Kay Fyfe was sorting through her inch-thick file of marriage licenses two weeks ago when she came across an announcement from a newspaper circa 1988.

"Sarah Louise Heath and Todd Mitchell Palin were married at the Palmer Courthouse on Aug. 29 by marriage commissioner Kay Fife [sic]," the article read.

Behind it, she found her commissioner's copy of the marriage license. And that's how Fyfe rediscovered the fact that she had presided over the wedding of Alaska's governor.

Fyfe was a courthouse clerk at the time. She had forgotten about the clipping, which she said she probably saved because her name was in the paper.

But then, it'd be easy to lose something like that in Fyfe's file full of copies of marriage licenses for the nearly 200 Valley couples she's helped to tie the knot during her time as a marriage commissioner.

According to Alaska statute, anybody can be a marriage commissioner. A couple that wants to get married just needs to find someone willing to fill out and sign the proper forms. There's no required ceremony, though at minimum the couple has to "assent or declare ... that they take each other to be husband and wife," according to the statute.