Wedding certificate

mazwell

We got married at the end of October (bank holiday) and went on honeymoon for three weeks on the bank holiday Monday. We are going to leave in our marriage paperwork on Friday but on looking at it we were supposed to leave it in within a month.
We wouldn't have been able to do this even if we had known because we both work full time and have no holidays left (nearest hse office is 45 minutes drive). We also didn't have family members to leave it in (husband is an only child his father is blind, I'm an only child with no living parents)
Are we goìng to have trouble getting the marriage registered?

Peregrinus

No, no trouble. You may or may not get a verbal rap on the knuckles or a raised eyebrow, but they really, really, really want to register marriages that take place in Ireland, not to find an excuse for refusing to register them. The purpose of the time limit is to ensure the prompt registration of marriage, so as to minimise the gap during which the reality (the couple are married) is different from the record (they are not married). But even if marriages are not registered as promptly as is desirable, it is still necessary to register them.

There's an obligation on the spouses to return the completed marriage registration form within a month of the date of the ceremony, and failure to comply with that obligation is (I think) an offence. But I think they would only consider prosecution where a marriage was celebrated but you failed to return the form at all, with a view to evading the registration of the marriage. That's not the circumstance here.

Incidentally, SFAIK you could have simply posted the MRF back to the registrar. There's no obligation to return it in person.

baby and crumble

Yeah we sent ours back on the Monday after the weedding before we took off on honeymoon by registered post. Figured with the Christmas rush we'd forget about it or something!