Hi all!

Please can someone give me a dummies guide to the legal processes we need to go through?!

Our date is 19/04/14. We have provisionally booked our registrar and have paid a £50 deposit. Our council says we can only properly/formally book a year to go - 19/04/13!

So we will, but I understand there is an interview, a form (M10?), giving notice, getting a licence?

I would really appreciate some help just to help me understand all the bits we need to do!

Thank you xx

Legal bit every one dreads way more than necessary! dont worry i did it too. finally gave notice a week ago friday.
Yes you cant do the legal bit till 12 months before. but basically, im assuming your marrying in a venue not a church?
You go to the registry office with your OH, documentation for ID - birth cert/passport, documentation for Address - council tax, utilities etc, and then documentation to prove date/venue so we had registrar documentation as different district to us & then the contract with venue.
You go in with OH, go through names and DOB and whether your local, uk citizen etc.
Then OH left, she double checked my name, DOB, if lived in uk, previously married, my dads name and occupation, my occupation, then asked me my OH's name, DOB & occupation and if I knew if he'd been married before.
Then I signed a 'authorisation' paper which have to hold onto until go back and collect our authorisation details to then send onto the registrar.
I left room, my OH came in and did same thing.
I got asked to go back in where she confirmed the authorisation papers & how our names and impending marriage will be up in the registrars for 15 days (reading of the banns equivalent) then to collect and send onto the distrcit we're marrying in's registry office. which im assuming is where we get marriage cert/documents from!

Then on Thursday received paperwork in post from the registrar with vow options/ring promise options/readings etc and confirmation of our wedding date and reminder of whats left to pay and when.

So go on 5th feb to collect the 'authorisation papers' and send them onto the correct district and take it from there!
Thats as much as i know, someone else may know more, but hope thats helpful.

Sorry for the waffle! xx

i will be doing all this in July time :) xxx
hopefully my decree absolute will be sorted by then xxx

my divorce papers lol xxx

haha no. im waiting for my ex husband to get back to me so i can sort the money out for the paperwork to be filed. im going to give him till the end of the week to get back to me. he needs to give me £170 for it :/ im hoping it will all be sorted as it only takes about 3-4 months apparently if theres no issues xxx

well thats what ive been told. sooner i can get it through the sooner i can give notice. as long as i book it then we should be ok xxx

Yeah, it's amazing - I'm an accountant and we charge by six minutes. It's a pain doing the time sheets though!

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