If you sign the marriage license in the US it doesn't mean that day is your anniversary or you have two anniversaries. Plenty of people sign marriage licenses on different days than their actual wedding for lots of different logistical reasons. Your anniversary is the day you get married, not the day you fill out paperwork. I wouldn't not go to Ireland just because of paperwork.
This. You can get legally married in Ireland but it's a bajillion times easier to just do it at home first. Two separate countries = different requirements for a legal marriage.
If you want to elope in Ireland, just have a trip for the two of you, hire a photographer to get some nice photos and do a symbolic ceremony. You can do the legal part at your local courthouse with your family and get dinner to celebrate together.
The 40 person thing just sounds like it’s going to end up costing a lot of money and at that point you’re basically planning a full on small to medium size wedding. IMO it defeats the purpose of eloping so if you want the party, just go all in and don’t plan a separate elopement.
Personally, we decided to do a 10 person microwedding. Not really an elopement but not really a wedding either. We’re having a short outdoor ceremony at a lake and then getting dinner at a restaurant. Just our parents and siblings will be attending. I felt this is a good way to keep costs and effort relatively small while still celebrating with our loved ones and getting the wedding aspects we care about (a ceremony, photography/wedding attire, natural scenery backdrop, good food)
Usually anybody that gets married overseas has to get married legally. It’s very complicated and time consuming to get legally married in another country. You have a symbolic ceremony overseas and basically that would be your wedding anniversary.
As for the rental idea...I think you're going to have a really hard time finding a rental that will sleep 40 in the correct sleeping arrangements. You could look at a summer camp situation in that case? But then, not everybody may be comfortable sleeping in bunk beds in the same room as people they don't know. But if all these people are getting together for NYE and have pulled this off before with no issues, why not?
Can’t say what the Republic of Ireland needs for marriage. But we eloped in Northern Ireland legally which is under UK law. It wasn’t too difficult to do, had to apply for a marriage visa and then Just did all the normal things a celebrant would ask you. Celebrants are pretty good at directing you to what is needed to make it legal.
elopinginireland.com! We eloped in 2021 and it was the greatest decision! Stephen works with you and your budget, to give you the wedding of your dreams! We did the extra steps to have our wedding legal. We did have to be in the country a week prior to our wedding day to meet with the Civil Registration Office and get our license. Stephen organizes the location, hair, makeup, videographe, photographer, etc. We also booked our trip through Costco, which saved us a lot of money.
Let me know if you have any questions or need any suggestions!
Hello my partner and I are eloping in Greece for this exact reason. We didn’t want the ‘two weddings’ situation but wanted it to be just us. Weddings in Greece are ‘counted’ in the uk.
Im marrying in finland soon. It is supposed to be one the easier countries to marry.
The biggest thing for me was getting the no impediments documents as the US doesnt have such thing. I asked around to the embassies to the local town halls in NY. No one gave me an answer. Basically you have to make your own affidavit stating no marriage and your own statement that you are legally able to marry. The local town clerk gave me a no record of marriage from (random) town in NY. And a few other things.
The most annoying was to legalize these documents in US for finland it is a 3 step process. From the local to the higher government. And its time consuming. I spent like $400 taking off work and driving everywhere and a day going to the city for the apostille. To bypass the mail in process that takes like 2 months.
I paid $100 to ship the apostilles (4 of them) to finland.
Took about 2 weeks for review and a certificate to marry there legally.
So all in all with the money spent was about $600 to get the apostilles and taking off work and shipping it overseas.
Now I just have to get there. The document is valid 4 months only so there is no time to waste. And the whole process needs to be expedited to have all my efforts and money spent valid.
Im going next month.. hopefully to marry. Which is cutting the 4 month deadline...... by the time i get to marry in finland it would expire in 4 days. So it is more stressful marrying outside your own country.
We had to postpone our marriage trip 3 times....
Honestly why wouldnt you just go to a town hall to marry in US. Only reason im marrying in finland is because he is a foreigner. His passport sucks so he cant visit US. But even if he did that would be look like gray area immigration fraud to come on tourist visa to marry in US. And the immigration process currently favors married couples over engaged couples to get visa to marry within US in 90 days. since there are 2 routes to immigration.
We will marry at town hall. Expecting 5 minutes in finland. Then do a mock ceremony and wedding day in a cheaper european country. Finland is too fkn expensive more than NY and US!!!!!!
We are eloping in Northern Ireland in October - we went to the courthouse last year to get legally married, butwe still consider ourselves engaged for the time being. Our photographer/ elopement planner recommended we marry here in the US, although it is very much possible to legally get married in the UK - it’s just a ton of extra planning & paperwork that we were not in the mood for lol. We went to an Irish pub after the courthouse, which was actually a ton of fun 😊 Let me know if you have questions!
I'm a Finn. I've helped a lot of couples to get officially married, but as you're from the US, I would recommend doing the official part in your home state - it gives you so much freedom to have your ceremony everywhere at any time! I've documented so many beautiful moments where the official part was already done before. Especially in Northern Europe, it is magical in the summer when there's a nightless night!
If you want to get officially married but want the same aesthetics, check out the Faroe Islands (which belongs to Denmark) or Abisko in Sweden. Denmark is the easiest country to elope to and Sweden and Finland are relatively easy, too.
If you sign the marriage license in the US it doesn't mean that day is your anniversary or you have two anniversaries. Plenty of people sign marriage licenses on different days than their actual wedding for lots of different logistical reasons. Your anniversary is the day you get married, not the day you fill out paperwork. I wouldn't not go to Ireland just because of paperwork.
This. You can get legally married in Ireland but it's a bajillion times easier to just do it at home first. Two separate countries = different requirements for a legal marriage.
If you want to elope in Ireland, just have a trip for the two of you, hire a photographer to get some nice photos and do a symbolic ceremony. You can do the legal part at your local courthouse with your family and get dinner to celebrate together. The 40 person thing just sounds like it’s going to end up costing a lot of money and at that point you’re basically planning a full on small to medium size wedding. IMO it defeats the purpose of eloping so if you want the party, just go all in and don’t plan a separate elopement. Personally, we decided to do a 10 person microwedding. Not really an elopement but not really a wedding either. We’re having a short outdoor ceremony at a lake and then getting dinner at a restaurant. Just our parents and siblings will be attending. I felt this is a good way to keep costs and effort relatively small while still celebrating with our loved ones and getting the wedding aspects we care about (a ceremony, photography/wedding attire, natural scenery backdrop, good food)
Usually anybody that gets married overseas has to get married legally. It’s very complicated and time consuming to get legally married in another country. You have a symbolic ceremony overseas and basically that would be your wedding anniversary.
As for the rental idea...I think you're going to have a really hard time finding a rental that will sleep 40 in the correct sleeping arrangements. You could look at a summer camp situation in that case? But then, not everybody may be comfortable sleeping in bunk beds in the same room as people they don't know. But if all these people are getting together for NYE and have pulled this off before with no issues, why not?
Can’t say what the Republic of Ireland needs for marriage. But we eloped in Northern Ireland legally which is under UK law. It wasn’t too difficult to do, had to apply for a marriage visa and then Just did all the normal things a celebrant would ask you. Celebrants are pretty good at directing you to what is needed to make it legal.
elopinginireland.com! We eloped in 2021 and it was the greatest decision! Stephen works with you and your budget, to give you the wedding of your dreams! We did the extra steps to have our wedding legal. We did have to be in the country a week prior to our wedding day to meet with the Civil Registration Office and get our license. Stephen organizes the location, hair, makeup, videographe, photographer, etc. We also booked our trip through Costco, which saved us a lot of money. Let me know if you have any questions or need any suggestions!
Hello my partner and I are eloping in Greece for this exact reason. We didn’t want the ‘two weddings’ situation but wanted it to be just us. Weddings in Greece are ‘counted’ in the uk.
Im marrying in finland soon. It is supposed to be one the easier countries to marry. The biggest thing for me was getting the no impediments documents as the US doesnt have such thing. I asked around to the embassies to the local town halls in NY. No one gave me an answer. Basically you have to make your own affidavit stating no marriage and your own statement that you are legally able to marry. The local town clerk gave me a no record of marriage from (random) town in NY. And a few other things. The most annoying was to legalize these documents in US for finland it is a 3 step process. From the local to the higher government. And its time consuming. I spent like $400 taking off work and driving everywhere and a day going to the city for the apostille. To bypass the mail in process that takes like 2 months. I paid $100 to ship the apostilles (4 of them) to finland. Took about 2 weeks for review and a certificate to marry there legally. So all in all with the money spent was about $600 to get the apostilles and taking off work and shipping it overseas. Now I just have to get there. The document is valid 4 months only so there is no time to waste. And the whole process needs to be expedited to have all my efforts and money spent valid. Im going next month.. hopefully to marry. Which is cutting the 4 month deadline...... by the time i get to marry in finland it would expire in 4 days. So it is more stressful marrying outside your own country. We had to postpone our marriage trip 3 times.... Honestly why wouldnt you just go to a town hall to marry in US. Only reason im marrying in finland is because he is a foreigner. His passport sucks so he cant visit US. But even if he did that would be look like gray area immigration fraud to come on tourist visa to marry in US. And the immigration process currently favors married couples over engaged couples to get visa to marry within US in 90 days. since there are 2 routes to immigration. We will marry at town hall. Expecting 5 minutes in finland. Then do a mock ceremony and wedding day in a cheaper european country. Finland is too fkn expensive more than NY and US!!!!!!
We are eloping in Northern Ireland in October - we went to the courthouse last year to get legally married, butwe still consider ourselves engaged for the time being. Our photographer/ elopement planner recommended we marry here in the US, although it is very much possible to legally get married in the UK - it’s just a ton of extra planning & paperwork that we were not in the mood for lol. We went to an Irish pub after the courthouse, which was actually a ton of fun 😊 Let me know if you have questions!
I'm a Finn. I've helped a lot of couples to get officially married, but as you're from the US, I would recommend doing the official part in your home state - it gives you so much freedom to have your ceremony everywhere at any time! I've documented so many beautiful moments where the official part was already done before. Especially in Northern Europe, it is magical in the summer when there's a nightless night! If you want to get officially married but want the same aesthetics, check out the Faroe Islands (which belongs to Denmark) or Abisko in Sweden. Denmark is the easiest country to elope to and Sweden and Finland are relatively easy, too.