You live Overseas?

Arranging a Gretna Green wedding from Overseas

For couples arranging a wedding from overseas, you must follow the normal procedure of giving notice to the registrar in Scotland but you may have to provide extra documentation.

• If you are domiciled in another country, outside the United Kingdom, you should provide a certificate of no impediment to marriage, issued by the competent authority there, to the effect that you are free to marry.
  (Most European countries issue certificates of no impediment but other countries may not do so. If for any reason you are unable to enclose such a certificate, state the reason. However if you are now resident in the UK and have lived here for the last 2 years or more you need not submit such a certificate, but should state how long you have been resident in the UK.)
• If any document is in a language other than English, you must also provide a certified translation into English.
• If required you must provide a translator please call the Registrar for details.

If you are unsure of what documents you require please log on to the Home Office website at www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk

Useful 'phone numbers

The Home Office: 0870 606 7766
Gretna Registration Office: 01461 337648