Living in Scotland but marrying in England

There was a post about this a few weeks ago so if you search the forums for Scotland you should find it. You could reply on that to get the answers from the OP of that post.

Hi, I'm going through this right now! To get married in England, at least one of you has to give notice in England, which you can arrange by getting in touch with the English council where you are getting married. The only caveat is that you have to have stayed in England for 9 days (including the day you arrive and the day of the appointment) to give notice, but the council will send you a word doc template for a friend/hotel owner/whatever to fill in to say that you've stayed there for that period of time. The other of you can either also give notice in England, or can do it in Scotland, where they'd be given a 'certificate of no impediment' - Glasgow council policy is that you do the ordinary M10 form and then there's an extra little form they send you.

I only know all this through waiting for an absolute age to hear back from the two councils - hope this is helpful and you have better luck than I did!!

P.S. it took us 2 months to hear back from Glasgow council, inc me resending the message. No luck. The moment my fiance tweeted them, they got back the same day - fun tip!

View quoted message Thanks so much for this! It seems such a complicated process!! Going to have to have a little holiday in England then to give notice! We’ve still not heard a thing from the office in Yorkshire so might tweet them! Thanks for the advice

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No worries at all! I'm sure you'll hear from them eventually - lots of the offices seem to have backlogs. Hopefully you found out long enough in advance to plan a nice trip south - for us it was cutting it quite fine but luckily they had an appointment to tie in with hair trial, pre-wedding venue meeting etc!