Civil Service on a Saturday?

XmasProposal

I'm reading that civil weddings can only be performed on weekdays?!

Is this really the case? Can any of the non-invisible-friend-believing bodies marry you on a Saturday? My o/h will be gutted if we have to have a weekday service.

tinkerbell

Civil ceremonies performed by the HSE can only be Mon-Fri. If you want a Sat, you'd need to go to a recognised solemniser e.g. Tom Colton.

Dolbert

Yep, and Fridays book up mighty quick so if you go with a HSE solemniser, be quick with the booking!

XmasProposal

I'd hope the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011 will be in effect by late next year (can't believe I approve of something Ivana Bacik is proposing! lol) which would allow us to get a legal humanist ceremony on a Saturday.

I've emailed the Humanist Society to see if they've been given any idea of timeframes and will update with anything I get back. Unfortunately, I can't see the HSE making life easy for them in this regard as I'd imagine the mileage etc. is a handy earner for their solemnisers.

John Mason

you can have a legal service on saturday with the spiritualists e.g. Tom Colton.

every wedding i am going to this is being done by Tom

XmasProposal

I'm really hoping the humanists are licensed by the date of our wedding as I'd really prefer not to be supporting any form of baseless superstition. I believe you can get the spiritualists to leave all the ghost nonsense out of the ceremonies they conduct but I'd still feel uneasy giving money to such an organisation...

lazygal

While far from ideal, you could do what we did. We had a quick legal ceremony on a weekday, had parents in to sign as witnesses, job done in five minutes. Then a few days later we had a humanist ceremony on a day which suited us. It worked really well as we didn't have to fuss about signing a register or doing paperwork on the "big" day and meant we could have the service we wanted.

Gatica

we also booked Tom Colton. Others have mentioned using the Unitarian Church solemnisers.

Raynaldo

Hi Guy's,

Some advice needed, we plan to have a civil wedding!! Problem is we only have a sat dates available where we want the wedding to be.... Any priest we approached wont do it, even tough the are legally able to do it... Anyone recommend what or who to contact around the Laois, Offaly and Kildare area??

Any advice would be great!!

Gatica

I think most suggestions are already in this thread.

Cdub

Dolorous wrote: »

Yep, and Fridays book up mighty quick so if you go with a HSE solemniser, be quick with the booking!

They really do, get in there quick or you could be disappointed. There is a bit of a wedding boom going on in 2012 so civil registrations have jumped too.