Living in Scotland, marrying in England, and very confused!!

I don't expect that you need to do anything. If things were the other way round you wouldn't register a Scottish marriage here.

I don't think you need to do anything. All the info about this stuff is very confusing, but I researched this as we live in NZ but are both English. Our original plan was to marry at home in England but we wanted to be sure our marriage would be legal in NZ when we returned. My understanding is that any marriage that takes place in England and Wales, under British law is automatically recognised as legal in any commonwealth countries (and many non-commonwealth countries by reciproacal agreement laws), so even if Scotland gets independence you should be ok.

The Scottish registrars should be able to tell you whether you need to register the marriage in Scotland (I don't think it being an English marriage would be a prohibit this) - have you asked them specifically for this information?

In England, you don't have to register the marriage after the wedding (once you've got your marriage certificate, that's it) but I know it's different in Scotland. My husband's brother and his wife got married in Scotland three months before we did and had to register their marriage within three days (humanist ceremony - incidently not legally binding in the UK).

I'm sorry that's not much help, but I would keep trying to get a definitive answer rather than just hope for the best!

We're the opposite - live in England (in Manchester in fact!) and marrying in Scotland - and as far as I know you don't need to do anything different. We certainly haven't been told that we need to 'make the marriage legal' in any way afterwards, and it seems like they'd mention it if we did

Thanks all, you've been very helpful - I've also just had the following reply from Lothian Chambers (registrars in Edinburgh):

"Dear Carol
If you go through the legal procedures to be married in any country it will be recognised in Scotland."

So I think that clears it up!! ?