Marriage registration & rings

eurasian

Hi all.
I apologize in advance if this was discussed before but I couldn't find anything.
Me and my partner of several years are thinking of getting married via civil ceremony in Cork. We're both not into ceremonies in terms of outfits, music, spendings etc, just casual clothes and vow. Really just want our relationship to be registered officialy.

I'm a bit confused about the rings part. Do we need to buy a rings if we don't want them, is this mandatory or not. I tried to find out on official sources and couldn't find anything.

Has anyone had similar experience? We would appreciate your advice.

eviltwin

No, you don't need to exchange rings if you don't want to. We aren't ring people either and we left that part out of our civil ceremony. The registrar will go through all that with you before the big day.

lazygal

We didn't exchange rings. Had the bare bones ten minute ceremony with no frills.

Loveinapril

lazygal wrote: »

We didn't exchange rings. Had the bare bones ten minute ceremony with no frills.

Same as ourselves. We did the 'wedding' the next day with all the frills.

Peregrinus

As regards the form of a civil ceremony, the irreducible minimum content is two declarations to be made by the spouses.

First, each spouse has to declare that he or she doesn't know of any impediment to the marriage.

Secondly, each spouse has to declare that he accepts the other as husband/wife.

Both of these declarations have to be made by the spouses in the presence of each other, of the solemniser and of the two witnesses.

Once the second declaration has been made, the spouses are married.

Every other element of the ceremony is optional, but these two declarations must be included.

The same rules apply to humanist/religious ceremonies, incidentally. Legally, the ceremony must include these two elements. The rules or practices of the denomination concerned/the Humanist Association may require other elements, but the law doesn't.

lazygal

Peregrinus wrote: »

The same rules apply to humanist/religious ceremonies, incidentally. Legally, the ceremony must include these two elements. The rules or practices of the denomination concerned/the Humanist Association may require other elements, but the law doesn't.

Only if you're being legally married in such a ceremony. We had an entirely personalised humanist ceremony because it didn't have to stick to any civil law rules.