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Help! Civil Ceremony Outdoors Coillte Forrest

  • 23-03-2018 3:27pm
    #1
    LittleMissLogic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭


    Hi all,

    I am at my wits end!
    I am having a humanist ceremony this coming August and wanted to do it in a nearby woods, that is run by Coillte.
    Coillte have no problem with it and are doing up permits (public liability insurance pending)
    My humanist solemiser says that he believe the Registry Office may have an an issue with it, but that he doesn't.
    I called the Births Deaths and Marriages, who were baffled as to why he'd think that as humanists can get married 'anywhere'. But then decided that actually, they have to observe the 'indoors, 4-walls' rule.
    I believe this is nonsense - but I have no idea who to ask or where I can find out with absolute certainty - that I can get married in the public woods!
    Please! Anyone! Help!


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  • #2
    GingerLily
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,767 ✭✭✭GingerLily


    We planned to get married outside, our ceremony would technically not be binding, but the signing of the papers in the building just after the ceremony would be.
    You need to sign the papers in a registered building.


  • #3
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,397 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    The legal bit has to be done in a building that is registered as a marriage venue and can be accessed by the public.

    Don't see why it's nonsense just because it doesn't suit you. A quick google would have told you the requirements.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/birth_family_relationships/getting_married/civil_marriage_ceremony.html


  • #4
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    You’ll have to be legally married somewhere within the law before having your ceremony in the woods.
    There isn’t any getting around that.
    Sounds lovely by the way.


  • #5
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,163 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    Our ceremony was outside and the papers were signed outside. Now it was on the grounds of the hotel but they were definitely signed outside.


  • #6
    GingerLily
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,767 ✭✭✭GingerLily


    Dovies wrote: »
    Our ceremony was outside and the papers were signed outside. Now it was on the grounds of the hotel but they were definitely signed outside.
    Yes your right -

    "
    According to the legislation the place where the solemnisation takes place must be open to the public. The Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 amended the legislation to clarify that a place that is open to the public means:

    A building that is open to the public or
    A courtyard, garden, yard, field or piece of ground that is open to the public and is near to and usually enjoyed with a building that is open to the public
    "


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