Short answer. Yes, in part. Article 25 of the Family Code requires the local civil registrar to log every license application in order received, recording the applicants' names and the date the license issued. A certified copy of that entry corroborates the license number, date, and names on your marriage certificate, though it does not certify every other requirement was met.
What the law says
The local civil registrar concerned shall enter all applications for marriage licenses filed with him in a registry book strictly in the order in which the same are received.
Family Code, Article 25 — Registry Book of Marriage License Applications. Read the full provision →
What the law says
shall record in said book the names of the applicants, the date on which the marriage license was issued, and such other data as may be necessary
Family Code, Article 25 — Registry Book of Marriage License Applications. Read the full provision →
What Article 25 requires the registrar to keep
Article 25 puts the duty on the registrar's office, not on you or your spouse. The local civil registrar concerned shall enter all applications for marriage licenses filed with him in a registry book strictly in the order in which the same are received. Applications go in one after another, in the sequence they actually arrived, not in whatever order is convenient later. The same office also shall record in said book the names of the applicants, the date on which the marriage license was issued, and such other data as may be necessary. A fixed order, applicant names, and an issuance date, kept independently of the couple, is what makes the book useful as a cross-check.
Why the log helps confirm your license was real
Because the registrar enters applications as they come in and records when each license was actually issued, the book is a running account the couple never touched. If your marriage certificate states a license number, an issuing date, and both your names, a matching entry in the registry book — same names, same date, in the expected sequence relative to neighboring entries — corroborates that a license application for the two of you was genuinely received and acted on by that office, rather than a number invented after the fact.
How to actually check the entry
The registry book itself is an internal record kept by the local civil registrar, not a document handed to applicants. To use it, you would request the office to check or certify what its own entry shows for your application, then compare that against the license number, date, and names on your marriage certificate. A mismatch in the date, the spelling of a name, or the sequence relative to other entries filed around the same time is worth raising with the registrar directly.
What the registry book does not settle
The book records that an application was filed and when a license was issued; it does not, by itself, establish that every other legal requirement for that license was satisfied. Article 25 describes a record-keeping duty, not a certification that the underlying marriage is valid. Treat a matching entry as one piece of corroborating evidence about the license's origin, not as proof that resolves every question about the marriage itself.