Spanish wedding requirements

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Hey all,

Im hoping to get legally married in Spain next year. My fiance is Spanish and we know we have to go through the Spanish embassy due to her being resident in Ireland.

We are getting little to no information on some questions we have for the embassy so seeing if anyone here knows.

Firstly the embassy is telling us we need to open the marriage book three months before the wedding. That is fine but the dfa doesn't give out the freedom to marry letter until 8 weeks before...

I read some people just give fake wedding date as they remain valid for 8 weeks but there is very little overlap here even if I fKe the date. Has anyone managed to get the letter with a longer term on it?

Then for translations we are unsure where we can get these done. Is it anywhere that can certify the translation or specific places?

Also does my birth certificate need to be printed in the last 6 months? They say the Spanish one does but don't mention it for the Irish one(I assume this means it doesn't)

Connavar

In case anyone is searching for this.

The Spanish embassy finally got back to us. They said that we can open the marriage book without the certificate of freedom and send it to them when we get it as they wouldn't normally have forwarded the documents to Spain at that point