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Wedding in South of France

  • 23-08-2012 8:03am
    #1
    foghlu77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭


    Hey everyone,

    I recently got engaged and am planning on getting married in the South of France in October 2013.

    I hear that the legal side of it is a nightmare in France, so we plan to get married legally here and then do the ceremony over there.

    I wonder if anyone can help me out with some questions:

    1. Does a priest do the legal thing over here?
    2. Can anyone recommend any wedding planners/venues for the south of France?
    3. We're thinking of about 60 people, any guideline on what we should plan to budget?

    Many thanks for any help,


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  • #2
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Generally, if you're doing the legal bit and the ceremony separately, you just go to the registry office for the legal bit.


  • #3
    Here Comes The Trio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭Here Comes The Trio


    Try these guys for weddings in South of France http://www.cotedazurweddings.com/

    What a lovely place to get married, best of luck!!!


  • #4
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    A priest in France is not allowed to celebrate a religious marriage service unless the couple are already civilly married. If you intend to have a civil marriage in Ireland, you will need to produce your Irish state marriage certificate (plus, I would assume, a certified translation into French) to the French priest before he can proceed.

    Which, in turn, means that you need to schedule your civil wedding in Ireland far enough in advance that you will have time to get your marriage cert, and get a certified translation made, before the religious wedding in France. Talk to the registry office about how long it takes to get a marriage cert. But don't plan Friday in Dublin, Saturday in Nice.

    It's different, of course, if you're planning a ceremony in France which is both non-religious and non-legal. So far as I know, there are no legal restictions of any kind and you can do anything you want, either before or after your civil wedding in Ireland.

    But getting people to help you could be tricky. Civil weddings in France are all held in the Mairie, and are celebrated by the elected Maire or one of his deputies, and they mostly put on quite a good show, often in fairly splendid surroundings, so people's need for a sense of occasion is satisifed. The market for further non-religious ceremonies outside the Mairie is not very large. There are humanist celebrants who can help you with a non-religious non-legal ceremony in France, but not very many. Google "humanist wedding in france" and that should take you to the websites of companies which organise such things for foreigners.


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