Marriage Documents for Italy?

Future 2050

I am arranging paperwork for weeding abroad in Italy. I know I have to apply to dept of foriegn affairs to be married abroad which they send to italy to get a nulla osta. When should I send this form (ie. is there a time limit on this)

Also when should I get in contact with local priest. The wedding is about 8 months away at moment.

Also I got baptised outside the country ie. America. I believe I need a cert which is dated within the last six months from date of marriage. Has annyone had problems getting this? Thaks

Swampy

Hi.

I went through thus process. No harm in going to your parish priest first. He will do an interview with you both(asuming you are catholic).
If I recall, then we had to do our pre-marraige course. Then get the christjng cert 6 months before the wedding. Then contact the archibishops house with all documents and they sort out the nulla osta and send all documents to the relevant parish in Italy.

Again, this was for a catholic wedding.

shoppergal

HI Future2050

Just to clarify, the nulla osta is completely independent of the church forms. This is the civil notification.

So, there's the Nulla Osta. THe forms can be downloaded from the department of foreign affairs website. You need to fill in one form with your partners details on the back and they do the same with their details on front and yours on back. YOu then need to get a solicitor or a commissioner of oaths to witness a 3rd form that you both fill in. You then send this to the DFA no earlier than 6 months before the wedding but no later than 4 months. You need to send this with copies of your passport, birth certs and a cheque for €20.

The church side of it then. You contact the parish in America at the 6 month mark and ask for your baptism cert(it has to be dated within 6 months so don't do any earlier) I had to request mine from the UK and no problems. Then contact the priest and arrange to meet him, he'll want to meet with you both of you to fill out a pre-nuptial enquiry form, he'll want the baptism cert and also a confirmation cert also. He'll most likely want a pre-marriage course done. We're getting married in May and met with the priest in early January and he said we should have it done by end of Feb at the latest to allow time for paperwork to be processed. Once the priest has all the paperwork, he sends it to the bishop for your area who then sends in on to the church in Italy.

For now, main things you could be doing is finding out from priest if you have to do pre-marriage course and if so book it, download the Nulla Osta forms and get them filled in(but not dated), make sure you have the correct versions of your birth cert to send off.

Best of luck

Future 2050

Thanks for this - this is great. Asked a couple of people who went through same process and they all gave vague unexplained answers Thanks.

One more query if you don't mind - Where are you doing the civil ceremony??. Here in Ireland or in Italy a day before. Where/How do you decide this or do you have choice.

Good luck with the wedding Thanks.

shoppergal

Future 2050 wrote: »

Thanks for this - this is great. Asked a couple of people who went through same process and they all gave vague unexplained answers Thanks.

One more query if you don't mind - Where are you doing the civil ceremony??. Here in Ireland or in Italy a day before. Where/How do you decide this or do you have choice.

Good luck with the wedding Thanks.

You don't need to do a civil ceremony. The nulla osta that you fill in is your notification to the state(i.e your civil notification) of your marriage. It's the same as getting married in a church here in that you don't need a civil ceremony as well.