marriage certificate question for OM's

The minister took the paperwork away on our behalf and sent it in to the registrars offices (3 days after the date of wedding, by scots law)

then the certificate arrived after our honeymoon

Hi there we were given ours after the signing of the registers so same day - no waiting whatsoever. What our vicar did was took all the relevant information prior to us getting married to get everything prepared. He handed our marriage certificate to our best man who then passed it to my hubby.

Sometimes though the Registration book changes and this can delay registration as the registry officers can reject any church wedding certificates if they've been made on outdated books which is what happened to my friend and they had to go and resign on new ones it was all sorted but they weren't legally husband and wife until the new signing on the new forms! Silly vicar lol. Other than books changing I've not seen or heard of a delay all the weddings I've seen they've had their certificates straight away in England. I'm not sure about the wedding we did in Aberdeen as laws are slightly different in Scotland so perhaps they had to wait too!

The signed copy gets kept in the main office and we get a typed out version...

Thanks Ladies. We did indeed get it on the day and handed to the best man, he then passed it to my mum and neither of them remembered to either tell us or give it to us!!! Doh!!!

Hang on a cotton-pickin' second. Did you just get married without us noticing?!

Yes fancyfree it was on 27th March ?

Did the certificate not need to be handed into the offices where you register marriages??? like, pronto after the wedding???

No apparently not.

Ohhh.... so, how do you know you're 'legally married'?? Tis very different up here....my marriage cert is stamped, dated and signed on the day it was registered at the offices... -which was the monday after our ceremony.

Probably a dumb question now: but when you sign it - are you signing it with your new married name or your maiden name??

Maiden name.

Thanks!

Sorry to crash but im getting v confused(not hard!) when are you supposed to get your marriage certificate? im getting married in church and have no idea if i have to wait to have it sent off etc etc?

Well, one opinion is the vicar at the church deals with the paperwork but i dont know how they do that, and Mrs Jackson's certificate was given to the bestman by the vicar.

Now up here in scotland, a marriage has to be registered within 3 days of the cermony. Our minister recieved our 'blank' marriage cert, which i collected from the registrars office on the week of the wedding.

That is what we signed on the day.

The minister then took it to the offices on the Monday.

The offices filed away our original and gave us a typed out version so for example my signature just plainly said Miss Teehee CrazyGuys, iinstead of my sig. and so forth for the witnesses etc.

It was stamped by the registrar, signed by the registrar and then posted to us (about 3 weeks after).

I dont know how it works in ingerlund.

Oh and it doesnt have to be the minsiter that takes it to the reg office, he offered but we were going to ask friends to do it for us as we would be on HM...

We were given ours on the day of the wedding, I'm not aware that we are supposed to take it to the registry office??

I used it to change my name at the bank- I hope I haven't committed fraud! ?

If you wish to be married in the Church of England or Church in Wales, speak to the vicar of the church in which you wish to marry. There is usually no need to involve your local register office.

SCOTLAND

You must post (not email) the completed forms to arrive normally 4-6 weeks before the date of the proposed marriage and certainly no later than 15 days before. If you want a religious marriage (which includes other belief systems) the marriage schedule needs to be personally collected from the Registrar no more than seven days prior to the date of marriage during office hours

so once we have given notice - within those dates, the ride or groom return and pick up the marriage schedule (certificate) which is given to the minister before the ceremony.

It has to be signed in black ink from a fountain pen tooo which i found a bit odd.....

so i think youse inglish peeps are awright!

If you are getting married in an anglican church the certificate you sign on the day is then given to you and you don't have to do anything else, the church will then deal with informing the local registry office where all births, deaths and marriages are registered.