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Following up on my “A license authorizes solemnization” comment... Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.105 Marriage license valid for thirty days.

Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.080 Marriage license required — Who may issue. No marriage shall be solemnized without a license therefor. The license shall be issued by the clerk of the county in which the female resides at the time, unless the female is eighteen (18) years of age or over or a widow, and the license is issued on her application in person or by writing signed by her, in which case it may be issued by any county clerk.

Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.105 Marriage license valid for thirty days.
A marriage license shall be valid for thirty (30) days, including the date it is issued, and after that time it shall be invalid.

Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.050(1)(b) Marriage shall be solemnized only by ... Justices and judges of the Court of Justice, retired justices and judges of the Court of Justice except those removed for cause or convicted of a felony, county judges/executive, and such justices of the peace and fiscal court commissioners as the Governor or the county judge/executive authorizes

Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.220 Return of license and certificate to clerk after ceremony.
The person solemnizing the marriage or the clerk of the religious society before which it was solemnized shall within one (1) month return the license to the county clerk of the county in which it was issued, with a certificate of the marriage over his signature, giving the date and place of celebration and the names of at least two (2) of the persons present.

Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.230 Filing of marriage certificate — Record of marriages.
The certificate shall be filed in the county clerk’s office. The county clerk shall keep in a record book a fair register of the parties’ names, the person by whom, or the religious society by which, the marriage was solemnized, the date when the marriage was solemnized, and shall keep an index to the book in which the register is made.