Planning - Where to Start

As soon as possible, contact us at My Greek Wedding and arrange a wedding date... if your first choice is not available, we will advise you of the nearest possible date. Once you have picked the date, you might want to start looking at flights...


MARRIAGE OF FOREIGN NATIONALS IN GREECE
There are three steps to making sure you have the right paperwork…

Foreign nationals not resident in Greece, wishing to marry may do so, provided that they allow sufficient time for the local authorities to receive and process their application with the necessary documentation in order for them to issue the marriage license.

My Greek Wedding will require your documents to be sent to us by courier one month before the wedding date.

The documents required by both persons who intend to marry are the following:
- Full birth certificate (with parents’ names)
- Certificate of No Impediment to marriage - this certificate can be obtained from your local Superintendent Registrar. This document must not be issued more than three (3) months before the desired date of the wedding. It takes approximately a month to be issued by the Registrar.
- Decree absolute, if there has been a divorce.
- Deed Poll, if name has been changed.

First Step
All documents, in English, must be officially certified (legalised) by the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Apostille Seal), Legalisation Department.

Send or take your documents to:
Norfolk House West
437 Silbury Boulevard
Milton Keynes
MK9 2AH

The FCO Legalisation Office Web Site could be found by clicking on their website

The next step is to translate all your documents into Greek. My Greek Wedding planners will advise you of a translator that we have been working very successfully with in the past.

Next step is to legalize the signature of the Official Translator at the Greek Consulate in London:

Translations Department,
Consulate General of Greece,
1A Holland Park
London W11 3TP

All the above documents, along with photocopies of both 10 year valid passports should be sent by courier to…

Kostas Minetos
Andromeda Centre
Lourdas
Vlachata 28082
Kefalonia
Greece

For all types of weddings, it is required that two witnesses be present. In case that the groom and the bride are traveling on their own, our staff will be happy to offer assistance and act as witnesses at the wedding ceremony.

Information for Irish nationals wishing to marry abroad
Visit the Department of Foriegn Affairs website