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If you intend on using your husband's insurance, you will need to give your husband the wedding certificate as proof to his HR person.  The person in HR will also need personal information which include your date of birth and social security number.  (These are just used to track each employee in their system). 

Depending on the plan your husband has with his company, you may get coverage either on the first day of your marriage or the following month (this all depends on the plan your husband's work has with the insurance company).  Ours happens to start on the 1st day the couple gets married.

Because all of our insurance plans are computerized through Guardian amongst other insurance companies, it only takes me a matter of seconds to input a spouse into the system before their coverage begins. 

Depending on the insurance company, you should receive a card in the mail within the first week or two.

Just make sure to enroll within the first 30 days of your marriage, otherwise you will have to wait until your husband's next open enrollment to be eligible, which varies from company to company (ours is every April of every year).

Because it's a "life changing event," you should be able to edit your benefits within a certain timespan after your nuptials. I would ask your respective employers for this information.

Well each company differs as far as how strict they are.  At my company, we only require that employees provide a wedding invitation.  Other companies ask for wedding certificates to make sure that people have gotten married.  The HR department determines how they will honor a person's marriage, so check with the HR person at your future husband's company.