Here is a detailed list of what you need for a civil wedding in Portugal.
Don’t worry ! Your wedding planner will advise you step by step and guide you through the completion of the paperwork with ease!
Civil Paperwork:
Portuguese brides or groom need:
Passport or ID card or cartão de cidadão
Foreign brides or grooms need:
Passport or ID card
Certificate of Non – Impediment *
Birth certificate
All documents need to be translated and accredited or in international format
Additionally you may need divorce certificates, certificates of death of former partners, previous marriage certificates, parental permission if under 18 years of age.
* Certificates of Non-Impediment (CNI) This is a document which states that you are free to marry. The Portuguese registrar service requires that you prove that you are free to marry according to the laws of your country of natonality.
You can obtain this document from your local registry office. You may need to give notice of your marriage and this might be published for a set amount of time before you can receive your CNI.
The Certificates of Non-Impediment can not be issued more than 6 month before your wedding date and needs to be translated into Portuguese.
Procedures
Once you have the above documents, you will either need to visit Portugal and organise your wedding at a registry office personaly.
Or we can organize the wedding process for you via a power of attorney document.
You can book a personal assistant and translator if you will go to the registry office yourself. Or ask your wedding planner for details, such as address, location map, contact name, opening hour.
When you organize your wedding process you need to decide date, time and location of ceremony. You also will be asked for the “regime de bens”, this determines the ownership rights to your belongings both personal and communal. The common option is the “comunhão de adquiridos”, meaning sharing of commonly achieved goods after the wedding. Everything that belonged to each of you before your wedding is yours and everything that is a personal gift or of personal heritage will remain yours.
You will be asked if you have children together and individually.
You will be asked to pay for the civil paperwork. The current fee is 120/190 Euros.
Once you have organized your wedding process, you may return to your home country and will only need to come back for the wedding day.
Witnesses: You may be asked to have 2 -4 witnesses. You need to inform:
Name and address, marital status, witness of (bride or groom), Passport number, date and location of issue, expire date. You may be asked to send a copy of witness passport prior to the wedding. The witness does not need to go to the registry office when you organize the wedding process. They only need to be present with their identification at the wedding date.
Translators: You will need a translator for the ceremony, if you do not speak and understand portuguese.
Costs: Listed below are some costs to consider if you opt for this type of wedding:
Civil paperwork:
Birth certificates: between 5 € – 25 € (depedning on nationality and entity issuing the document)
you further may need an apostille and/or a translation with a notarization. Costs vary
Certificate of no Impediment: between 15 € – 50 €
you further need either a translation with a notarization or the CNI will be exchanged for a Portuguese version by the embassy. Costs vary (average between 50 € – 80 €)
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Civil Weddings
Here is a detailed list of what you need for a civil wedding in Portugal.
Don’t worry
! Your wedding planner will advise you step by step and guide you through the completion of the paperwork with ease!
Civil Paperwork:
Portuguese brides or groom need:
Foreign brides or grooms need:
All documents need to be translated and accredited or in international format
Additionally you may need divorce certificates, certificates of death of former partners, previous marriage certificates, parental permission if under 18 years of age.
* Certificates of Non-Impediment (CNI) This is a document which states that you are free to marry. The Portuguese registrar service requires that you prove that you are free to marry according to the laws of your country of natonality.
You can obtain this document from your local registry office. You may need to give notice of your marriage and this might be published for a set amount of time before you can receive your CNI.
The Certificates of Non-Impediment can not be issued more than 6 month before your wedding date and needs to be translated into Portuguese.
Procedures
Once you have the above documents, you will either need to visit Portugal and organise your wedding at a registry office personaly.
Or we can organize the wedding process for you via a power of attorney document.
You can book a personal assistant and translator if you will go to the registry office yourself. Or ask your wedding planner for details, such as address, location map, contact name, opening hour.
When you organize your wedding process you need to decide date, time and location of ceremony. You also will be asked for the “regime de bens”, this determines the ownership rights to your belongings both personal and communal. The common option is the “comunhão de adquiridos”, meaning sharing of commonly achieved goods after the wedding. Everything that belonged to each of you before your wedding is yours and everything that is a personal gift or of personal heritage will remain yours.
You will be asked if you have children together and individually.
You will be asked to pay for the civil paperwork. The current fee is 120/190 Euros.
Once you have organized your wedding process, you may return to your home country and will only need to come back for the wedding day.
Witnesses: You may be asked to have 2 -4 witnesses. You need to inform:
Name and address, marital status, witness of (bride or groom), Passport number, date and location of issue, expire date. You may be asked to send a copy of witness passport prior to the wedding. The witness does not need to go to the registry office when you organize the wedding process. They only need to be present with their identification at the wedding date.
Translators: You will need a translator for the ceremony, if you do not speak and understand portuguese.
Costs: Listed below are some costs to consider if you opt for this type of wedding:
Civil paperwork:
Birth certificates: between 5 € – 25 € (depedning on nationality and entity issuing the document)
you further may need an apostille and/or a translation with a notarization. Costs vary
Certificate of no Impediment: between 15 € – 50 €
you further need either a translation with a notarization or the CNI will be exchanged for a Portuguese version by the embassy. Costs vary (average between 50 € – 80 €)
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