You notice it very quickly – also when it comes to religion, there are many things that you have to do in advance if you want to get married. In this article you can find the most important documents and recordswho have favourited your for the church wedding have to prepare!
1. What documents do you need for a Catholic wedding?
- A valid identity card or passport
- For the church wedding is usually a current certificate of baptism is required, the not older than six months may be. You will receive the baptismal certificate at the parish office of the baptismal church.
- Anyone who does not belong to any church or denomination must have one official proof of unmarried status by showing a certificate of residence that you will receive from the registry office or the residents’ registration office.
- In addition, you need a certificate of the Registration for civil marriage (if already legally married, the marriage certificate)
- Confirmation certificate
- In the Catholic Church, registration usually becomes one Marriage preparation seminar Desired by you! Find out about this in good time, because the dates and number of participants are limited!
- What about groomsmen? For the Catholic wedding, the wedding couple must 2 People as Name groomsmen, the not younger than 14 years old may be. You can therefore not do without witnesses.
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2. What documents do you need for the evangelical wedding?
- A valid identity card or passport
- For the church wedding is usually a current certificate of baptism is required, the not older than six months may be. You will receive the baptismal certificate at the parish office of the baptismal church.
- Anyone who does not belong to any church or denomination must have one official proof of unmarried status by showing a certificate of residence that you will receive from the registry office or the residents’ registration office.
- In addition, you need a certificate of the Registration for civil marriage (if already legally married, the marriage certificate)
- Confirmation certificate
- What about witnesses in the Protestant Church? the Protestant church writes no specific number of groomsmen.
Important: Who is very willing to travel and the Catholic wedding in the other municipality in Germany than in the home parish, it can happen that the Requires the parish priest’s permission.
Register the church wedding as early as possible. Most weddings only take place at Saturdays instead and these are very popular, especially in the summer months! So plan your registration at least 1 year in advance. Important: the church requires a wedding interview in advance. Make an appointment with your pastor in good time.
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4. What do you need if you want to get married in another church?
Catholic Church:
- Discharge certificate or a wedding license and additionally
- one Delegation of the pastor (read: the pastor’s permission that you can have the wedding performed by another pastor)
Protestant church:
- Dimissorial or Lesion and additionally
- one Delegation / dispensation from the pastor (also here the permission of the pastor that you can have the wedding performed by another pastor)
Do you need more information? to the planning the church wedding, the sequence, to the Wedding talk, church notebook or church music, then read yourselves like to read through our article!
