Marriage certificate

cruais

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help.

We got married 15 months ago and to date have not received our marriage certificate.

We registered as normal, and received our green folder/booklet which we gave to the priest straight away, then on the day, we signed our certificate.

However, that was the last we heard of anything. To my knowledge, we didn't receive the green booklet back, and I assumed the priest looked after the rest.

Hoping someone can shed some light.

Many thanks.

lollpop

You don't get it automatically. You have to request it and pay for it. You can do it online at certificates.ie, its pretty quick to arrive.

angeldelight

The priest won't have necessarily sent it in... Ours didn't, we had to get someone to take the green folder on the day and my mother in law dropped it into the place on Pearse St while we were on honeymoon. Then you pay €10 per copy of the cert. Don't want to worry you but you better check the marriage was registered...

cruais

angeldelight wrote: »

The priest won't have necessarily sent it in... Ours didn't, we had to get someone to take the green folder on the day and my mother in law dropped it into the place on Pearse St while we were on honeymoon. Then you pay €10 per copy of the cert. Don't want to worry you but you better check the marriage was registered...

Thank you all for the replies! Tbh that is my exact worry, that it isn't registered!

Does that mean we would have to go through the whole process again! Get married all over again?!?

tinkerbell

As far as I can remember, you have to return the marriage cert to the registrar within one month of the marriage ceremony, so you're not legally married, I don't think. Call the marriage reg office tomorrow first thing.

December2012

Best thing to do is to phone up and apply for a copy Certificate from GRO

Lisha

Ring your local birth marriage death office and they will tell you if marriage was registered. It prob was.
You can order cert online , or by posting po for approx 13euro or call into office in person

cruais

Thanks everyone. Going to get onto that ASAP. Will let you know! Say a prayer and cross all fingers and toes that our lovely priest sent the forms back!:(

angeldelight

cruais wrote: »

Thanks everyone. Going to get onto that ASAP. Will let you know! Say a prayer and cross all fingers and toes that our lovely priest sent the forms back!:(

Fingers crossed!

D3PO

cruais wrote: »

Thanks everyone. Going to get onto that ASAP. Will let you know! Say a prayer and cross all fingers and toes that our lovely priest sent the forms back!:(

No need to wait go to www.certificates.ie and see if you can order a copy of your marriage cert. You have to put in the date of the wedding church location etc if it allows you buy it then its registered if it doesn't exist then it isn't.

cruais

I just logged on to the website and it seems to be registered as there was an Id number and it gave me a reference number, so hopefully it arrives, meaning proof of registration! thanks everyone! The relief!

Peregrinus

cruais wrote: »

Thank you all for the replies! Tbh that is my exact worry, that it isn't registered!

Does that mean we would have to go through the whole process again! Get married all over again?!?

No. Once you're married, you're married. If the marriage doesn't get registered, that's a problem, but it doesn't mean that you're not married. It just means that you have yet to register your marriage.

Gatica

If the registration form that was signed does not ever make it back to the registrar, then legally you have to get all the parties together again and resign the forms. Apparently it's a big deal. at least that's what we were told at the office if we didn't turn in our reg forms.
I think ordering any certificates online is still no guarantee they exist, as they have a person in the office actually look up the relevant cert and and send it out. Although I may be confusing it with a birth cert....

solerina

Its definately a big deal if the green cert isn't returned to the office...we were told by the woman preparing ours that a bride had been in the day before to say the best man lost theirs...thinks it might have gone in the bin...registrar told us that they would have to pay the application fee...get a new cert, get the priest and witnesses together and sign it again !!! Bride was less than happy apparently !!!!

seosamh1980

Eh, yeah you're supposed to return that yourself, not the priest? If he didn't return it you're not legally married, happened to someone I know, only became apparent 5 years later when they were making wills.