Cost of a Civil Partnership

gazzer

Myself and my partner have decided after 15 years together to have a civil partnership next year.

Just trying to plan the big day and was wondering how other people here went about it.

We were thinking of just having immediate family and close friends at the actual ceremony (approx 50 people) and then head to a restaurant where we will have booked off a portion of it for a few hours.

After that we were going to have a function in a nearby hotel/pub for approx 150 people where we will have a dj and just finger food.

Part of the reason of doing it this way is too save money (as neither of us want to fork out up to ten grand on a wedding venue), the other part is I dont really want to have the whole "Sitting at the top table" thing. On top of that I dont want to be putting people to the expense of forking out for wedding gifts and having to stay overnight in a hotel.

I would love to invite all my friends and family to the whole day but we just cant afford it.

Would love to hear stories of other people here and how they planned their day?

Thanks

baby and crumble

Moved to Weddings, Marriage & Civil Partnership (hello to the friendly folks!)- I think you'll get better info over here, OP.

Moonbeam

A civil wedding costs 150 euro and after that it is up to you:)
Congrats:)

Hey Gazzer. Although I can not claim to have had anywhere remotely near 150 people we did our ceremony and fun times in a large garden when we decided to make our relationship official and committed.

No hotels - no rental - just a line of BBQs and cold meats and finger foods and a series of crates of beer and other beverages of the mind altering persuasion.

Marriage or any other official ceremony was not an option for us as we are a truple rather than a couple - it being me and two girls - so we invented our own ceremony with our own version of vows and speeches and so forth - and constructed it so there was quite a bit of audience participation in the entire procedure.

Then we just descended on the drinks and foods and had a good day of it. The cost was fine as we had one friend with a Musgraves card so we got the drinks on a good price. The meat for the BBQ and cold meats we rang all the local butchers and told them our requirements and let them have a bidding war amongst themselves for the order and we just went with the best one.

Everyone had a great day out and people ordered a couple of shared mini bus taxis amongst themselves so left cars at home and got to the event at a reasonable pricing. Some people brought guitars and lashed out a few songs and in the interims there was an open set of big speakers and a laptop so people just plugged in their MP3 players and did their own DJing.

rupamede

I have been living with a same sex partner for over a decade. I want us to make a will and testament to each other. He agrees but hes a foreigner (European Citizen) so we're not sure if we can inherit from each other... like what will irish law have to say about that?

We're not in Civil Partnership yet... Will that make a difference? what is he becomes an Irish Citizen? he has to pay euros 950 to be an irish citizen but maybe that would be less than the inheritance tax?

Thanks for your helpful comments.

Moonbeam

It should not matter once he is an EU citizen.

cch

rupamede wrote: »

I have been living with a same sex partner for over a decade. I want us to make a will and testament to each other. He agrees but hes a foreigner (European Citizen) so we're not sure if we can inherit from each other... like what will irish law have to say about that?

We're not in Civil Partnership yet... Will that make a difference? what is he becomes an Irish Citizen? he has to pay euros 950 to be an irish citizen but maybe that would be less than the inheritance tax?

Thanks for your helpful comments.

Him not being an Irish citizen is not the big problem here, you are legally strangers in law and so anything you leave to him in your will over approx 16K will be subject to 30% tax :eek:
So if we're talking about leaving a house in the will then, being realistic, it would probably have to be sold to pay the tax bill...
Civil partnership would remove the limit of how much you could leave each other.