marriage licence question

ameee · 23-10-2014 11:35am #1

Hi
just a quick probably silly question but I cant find the answer anywhere

We are getting married in march and have our appointment to give notice on the 1st of December.

What im wondering is how do you get the actual license as in is it posted out at the end of the three months notice or do you get it there and then but dated for your wedding? Thanks in advance.

UncleChael · 23-10-2014 11:38am

If I remember correctly you get it there and then.

lazygal · 23-10-2014 11:39am

There is no licence.
When you register intent, there's paper work to sign and then there is the paperwork for your ceremony. If you're getting married by a register, they keep all the paperwork and send it back to register the marriage after the ceremony. If you're getting married by someone else, you keep the paperwork, sign it at the ceremony, then send it back. You have to order and pay for a marriage cert separately afterwards if you want one. We ordered ours about a month after the wedding took place.

ameee · 23-10-2014 11:41am

Thats brilliant thanks there are three months and one week between us giving notice and getting married so I was worried about it getting lost in the post or something! We are a bit last minute with our plans.

ameee · 23-10-2014 11:45am

Ok thanks lazygal I had assumed it was a piece of paper type of thing something we had to hand our solemniser. Im a bit clueless with all this thanks.
Ill make sure to find out who sends the paperwork back after wards her or us.

lazygal · 23-10-2014 11:46am

ameee wrote: »

Ok thanks lazygal I had assumed it was a piece of paper type of thing something we had to hand our solemniser. Im a bit clueless with all this thanks.
Ill make sure to find out who sends the paperwork back after wards her or us.

Who is marrying you? If its the state registrar they take care of the paperwork during and afterwards. If its anyone else, you have to make sure its accounted for.

ameee · 23-10-2014 11:50am

A humanist solemniser so it will probably be up to us to do ill ask her when we have our prewedding meeting

lazygal · 23-10-2014 11:54am

ameee wrote: »

A humanist solemniser so it will probably be up to us to do ill ask her when we have our prewedding meeting

In that case you will bring the paperwork for the ceremony to the wedding (usually outsourced to a best man or father of the groom!) and then return it afterwards. I think you've 28 days to send it back once the ceremony takes place.

floggg · 23-10-2014 11:55am

lazygal wrote: »

There is no licence.
When you register intent, there's paper work to sign and then there is the paperwork for your ceremony. If you're getting married by a register, they keep all the paperwork and send it back to register the marriage after the ceremony. If you're getting married by someone else, you keep the paperwork, sign it at the ceremony, then send it back. You have to order and pay for a marriage cert separately afterwards if you want one. We ordered ours about a month after the wedding took place.

Actually, do you know how long it takes the cert once married?

We will probably be getting married in either the registry office or by some form of humanist. Could we realistically expect to have the cert within a week or two of being married or is there a processing time?

ameee · 23-10-2014 11:58am

Thanks lazygal we have all the big stuff sorted so now im panicing about all the small stuff :-)

lazygal · 23-10-2014 12:01pm

floggg wrote: »

Actually, do you know how long it takes the cert once married?

We will probably be getting married in either the registry office or by some form of humanist. Could we realistically expect to have the cert within a week or two of being married or is there a processing time?

I would imagine it doesn't take too long. Eg we registered the births of our children about two weeks after they were born and were able to buy the birth certs there and then in the office. If you really need the cert quickly, you could go in in person and ask for the information to be processed quickly and a cert issued on the day. They are very helpful I found.

pooch90 · 23-10-2014 12:06pm

The marriage cert will be issued in about a week after you've ordered it. You can do it online http://lifeevents.hse.ie/

hoodwinked · 23-10-2014 6:57pm

all the information is available here and here

about the week after our wedding we went in to the births,marriages,deaths office and bought ours, the prices are in the links above

Broken Strings · 24-10-2014 9:22am

ameee wrote: »

A humanist solemniser so it will probably be up to us to do ill ask her when we have our prewedding meeting

We got ours 2 weeks ago even though we aren't getting married for another 17 Months. Decided to get it out of the way and we have it in a safe place.

We are also having a humanist solemniser and we were advised by the registrar to actually give it to her ahead of the date, about 3 weeks before and she bring it along with her on the actual date

Someone else might advise different I guess, and I don't see what real difference it makes as it's not being filled out until the day anyway but that was just our experience

ABajaninCork · 24-10-2014 6:37pm

Handed over the MRF in person at Adelaide St on the following Monday after we married. Got the marriage certs the same day. Ordered three copies to be on the safe side.

Peregrinus · 27-10-2014 2:24am

Broken Strings wrote: »

We got ours 2 weeks ago even though we aren't getting married for another 17 Months. Decided to get it out of the way and we have it in a safe place.

Your marriage registration form (that you get from the HSE after you have given notice of intention to marry) is only good for six months. You'll need to do all this again within six months before your intended wedding date.

bee06 · 27-10-2014 4:18am

Peregrinus wrote: »

Your marriage registration form (that you get from the HSE after you have given notice of intention to marry) is only good for six months. You'll need to do all this again within six months before your intended wedding date.

You don't have to register within 6 months of your wedding date. You can do it anytime as long as it's at least 3 months before. We registered 9 months before our wedding date.

Peregrinus · 27-10-2014 4:35am

My mistake. You can get the MRF as early as you like. It will state your intended wedding date. If for any reason you change your the date of your wedding, and push it out beyond six months from the intended date stated in the MRF, then you need a new MRF.

lazygal · 27-10-2014 5:37am

Peregrinus wrote: »

Your marriage registration form (that you get from the HSE after you have given notice of intention to marry) is only good for six months. You'll need to do all this again within six months before your intended wedding date.

I think you might be confusing this with Catholic paperwork which is valid for six months. The state paperwork is different.

Peregrinus · 27-10-2014 5:39am

lazygal wrote: »

I think you might be confusing this with Catholic paperwork which is valid for six months. The state paperwork is different.

No, my mistake was thinking that the MRF was valid for six months from date of issue. In fact it's valid for six months from date of intended wedding.

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