Desperately need help re birth certificates!

Http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

HTH

If you have your passport, this should be fine - you shouldnt need both (or at least we didnt)...

I blummin hope we do! I just ordered them!

Lol! Spoke to the registrar who said we deffo need them. Only £20 for the both of them anyway.

Thankyou xxxxx

I just took my passport and council tax bill...

Shaz

We definitely needed our birth certficates. We couldn't find H's at first but had a photocopy of it, but that wasnt enough, they needed original copy. His mum found it, eventually!

I needed a new one for more son and for £26 got it in 2 days online, you can even go down to the registry office and get one if you need one. This is really common now as everyone needs one to get a job if they don't have a passport so need to be able to get them quickly.

We only needed to show passports too. I know we definitely didn't need birth certificates because I have no idea where mine is.

Only cost me £13 to get mine and OHs - ive needed mine so much since I finished teaching college and it will only cost me £9 for a copy of a marraige cert.

We are giving notice of marriage this Friday and when they told me what to brng only said passports and a letter for proof of residence ie council tax bill with both our names,,, starting to panick as have no idea where mine or OH's birth certificate is..... will i need them they didnt tell me to bring them only if we didnt have passports

If the only said to take passports and proof of residence you'll be fine - its all we needed. You only need your birth certificat if you dont have a passport. Heres what it says on (as an example) Torbay's website:

All persons are required to produce a current, valid passport. If you do not have a passport you will need to produce a full birth certificate and two other forms of identity which are acceptable (a full driving licence, rent or council tax document, utility bill or National Health Service medical card.)

https://www.torbay.gov.uk/index/community/register-office/marriage/givingnotice.htm

Thamks Groom with a view....

Do you live Torbay? We live Teignbridge Area!! How strange!!

I dont live anywhere near Torbay Im afraid - Im in Zurich, so quite a way! Even live miles away in Sussex when I am in the UK...just happened to be the first site I looked at for info on what needs to be taken to the Registrar...

Ha ha..... Far away then!!

BLOODY HELL! you just reminded me that I need to send off my my h2b's birth cert from Jamaica (*note to self* GET TO POST OFFICE TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Glad you got yours sorted ?

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we went to the registry office about 3 weeks ago, we only needed valid passports and proof of address, i took bank statement and that was fine (picked up the authorisation document today!!)