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Advice - lost marriage cert

  • 10-05-2011 9:57am
    #1
    intothewest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭


    Hi - greatly appreciate any advice. We gor married two weeks ago and himself of course managed to lose the marriage cert. He has zero recollection of what he did with it/if he gave it to someone (at the altar that's what he said he was gonna do). We've asked everyone and he didn't give it to anyone. House has been turned upside down, and looked everywhere it could be to no avail. It could of course have been thrown out with some other stuff at this stage.

    Can anyone advise if a new one can be issued (which I doubt) or do we plain and simple have to go throught the whole process again???


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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Are you talking about the MRF that you and your witnesses sign?

    Can't just be reissued. You'll need to speak to the registrar and have your witnesses sign the form again in the presence of a solemniser.

    My best man was given very clear instructions to take the forms and march straight out of the church to the nearest postbox to send it off :)

    Check with the groomsmen/bridesmaids that someone wasn't handed this envelope and has been sitting on it for two weeks. Note that it must be returned to the registrar within a month of the wedding so I'd make a few phone calls today.


  • #3
    intothewest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭intothewest


    They were first port of call, but they defo didn't have it. Was only small wedding and everyone has been asked. Even if he did give it to someone, he didn't tell them what it was, so with the shenanigans god knows were it ended up, cos unless they (if someone was even given it) studied it, they may not have realised it was what it was.

    Anyway, leaving it to him to sort out at this stage cos he messed it up...


  • #4
    BC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭BC


    As seamus said, contact the registrar, it will have to be signed again.

    Also, do it with 28 days of the ceremony or it becomes much more complicated as far as i know.

    edited to say - just for info, that form isn't actually your marriage cert. Once you have submitted the MRF, you then have to apply to get your marriage cert separately, theres a charge for it.


  • #5
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    If it's the cert I think you are referring to it you will have to getmarried again or at least that what we have been told by the registrar and our priest


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