When do you get your marriage certificate?

picklepick

Ours was folded into a small emvelope too which now sits in our filing cabinet. It's longer than A4 size if I remember correctly. Unless you get copies, you'll have to fold it to send it off to change your name on things anyway.

hermanmunster_3

You sign the register and sign the certificate one you get to keep (which is a technically a copy anyway), usually handed to you before you leave the vestry and walk down the aisle. Don't think I sent mine anywhere - might have sent a photocopy to the bank once though.

Idiophreak

picklepick wrote: »

Unless you get copies, you'll have to fold it to send it off to change your name on things anyway.

We found that a lot of places refused copies and we had to send the real thing off about 6 times. I was amazed that we still ended up with the thing at the end.

In this day and age, there should really be a single place you can send it to to be verified....such a hassle (especially as you have to provide recorded delivery return envelopes each time...)

picklepick

Idiophreak wrote: »

We found that a lot of places refused copies and we had to send the real thing off about 6 times. I was amazed that we still ended up with the thing at the end.

In this day and age, there should really be a single place you can send it to to be verified....such a hassle (especially as you have to provide recorded delivery return envelopes each time...)

I meant buying specific copies from the Register Office, not ones you've copied yourself. It's no different to the real thing you just have more than one version of it. There is of course a charge for ordering more.

continualdiamond

We got 2 marriage certificates in an envelope that said 'our marriage certificate' straight after our wedding. That way they then went safely into my mums handbag.

We also paid £10 to have a commentrative copy produced which we have in a frame in our living room.