Hi,
My daughter and her Fiance want to have a Roman Catholic marriage in Siena, Italy in June this year. They have a priest and church booked but do not know the legal requirments. Does anyone know the legal requirments for marriages in Siena Italy? We are Irish citizens. Does anyone know how to contact the Siena Town Hall to find out the legal requirments.
Thanks,
Mo

You are better off contacting the Italian embassy. I am Irish and got married in Austria - I got a variety of reports of what I needed from different people. If you live outside of Ireland you will also need some other documents from that country.

Here is a snapshot of what I needed:

Church wedding: (this should be similar in Italy)


- Document from the Irish Foreign Ministry -letter of No Impediment to civil marriage

- birth certificate
- baptism cert
- confirmation cert
- registration with the commune (I live outside of Ireland)
- ID (e.g. passport)

Additionally, I had to give the church :
- the name, address and job of brides maid and best man (but no baptism cert)
- confirmation that I attended the pre wedding course
- wedding protocol- this is the protocol issued by my parish priest in the country of residence needed to prove that we were entitled to marry.

Civil wedding: (if you're doing that in Italy)

- birth cert (not older than 6 months, don't ask me why)
- certificate of Irish citizenship
- registration with commune
- Letter of No impediment to civil marriage, isseud by Foreign Ministry
- proof of academic titles (hahah)
- copy of passport

We needed a certified translation of all the documents - into German.

I would imagine the Italians will be looking for similar.

Good luck! It's a nightmare getting all this rubbish together.

Hi G,

I think you might want to consider a local wedding planner.

If you do a search of this forum, you will find threads from Italy on the topic.

Would the priest not be able to advise?

There's some info here (or just google "getting married in italy" for similar:
http://www.gettingmarriedinitaly.com...n_catholic.asp

Organizing a wedding in a foreighn country can be a full-time job - requiring many hours of dealing with civil authorities, having translations of numerous documents notarized etc.

I can;t imagine a parish priest having the time to do all this as well as their normal duties (since they're not paid wedding planners).

Really - look at some of the posts of people who got married in Italy to see the complications it entails - including the need for a civil ceremony.

(Don;t know how it works in Ireland - but in the US no marriage is valid unless there's a civil license issued, with all the requirements - often including residence requirements and blood tests - that entails, depending on state.)

Hi, garland. Over on the Slow Travel site, a young woman by the name of Sudhin (screen name kaushal) posts often about her May 2007 wedding in Siena. Perhaps she can be of help.