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[Pushin40]

Hey- question for ya...or anyone else who got married in Mexico:

Did you have the legal ceremony there as well?
I am feeling a bit overwhelmed about havng to get FI''s Divorce Decree and our Birth certificates translated into Spanich and getting them Apostille''d.
How did you get that accomplished? I really don''t even know where to start.....

 

[meresal]

Date: 2/12/2010 1:00:54 PM
Author:Pushin40
Hey- question for ya...or anyone else who got married in Mexico:

Did you have the legal ceremony there as well?

I am feeling a bit overwhelmed about havng to get FI's Divorce Decree and our Birth certificates translated into Spanich and getting them Apostille'd.
How did you get that accomplished? I really don't even know where to start.....

I think the whole point of the "legal ceremony" is that it has to be done in the US. If you have it done in Mexico, then it won't be recognized as a US marriage. Right?

My best friend did theirs at the court house here in Texas the Sunday before the ceremony in Mexico.

 

[nkarma]

I am getting married in Mexico in September and am not doing a legal ceremony. Sounds like a lot more paperwork and $$$$$$. It is not important for us for the wedding day to be legal per se. We are mostly interested in making the vow to each other and not the state. So we are going to get "legally" married a few days before we leave on like a Tuesday night or something.

If it is important for it to be legal, I would google search it or talk to a coordinator down there because they know the deal. Another good resource is bestdestinationweddings.com. This question has been asked a lot and from what I read over half or maybe even more of the weddings that foreigners do in Mexico aren't legal.

 

[NakedFinger]

Date: 2/12/2010 1:03:23 PM
Author: meresal

Date: 2/12/2010 1:00:54 PM

I think the whole point of the ''legal ceremony'' is that it has to be done in the US. If you have it done in Mexico, then it won''t be recognized as a US marriage. Right?


My best friend did theirs at the court house here in Texas the Sunday before the ceremony in Mexico.

Actually you can make it legal if you want to. Legal meaning recognized in the US. Many people have the ceremony in Mexico "for show" (more the formality of the ceremony, with exchanging of vows, religious beliefs, etc) but have the legal portion of it handled at a courthouse before or afterward, mainly because its such a hassle to make the ceremony that takes place in Mexico legal. Thats the part Pushin is referring to. The apostille of the foreign documents, the blood tests (in mexico), passports, birth certificates, divorce decrees, translations of documents, etc.

 

[Pushin40]

Date: 2/12/2010 1:03:23 PM
Author: meresal

Date: 2/12/2010 1:00:54 PM
Author:Pushin40
Hey- question for ya...or anyone else who got married in Mexico:

Did you have the legal ceremony there as well?


I am feeling a bit overwhelmed about havng to get FI''s Divorce Decree and our Birth certificates translated into Spanich and getting them Apostille''d.
How did you get that accomplished? I really don''t even know where to start.....

I think the whole point of the ''legal ceremony'' is that it has to be done in the US. If you have it done in Mexico, then it won''t be recognized as a US marriage. Right?

My best friend did theirs at the court house here in Texas the Sunday before the ceremony in Mexico.

When you choose the legal ceremony in Mexico, you need to do the paperwork above which makes it recognized in all countries.

We obviously don''t need to do this, we can get married before we go, but that''s not what I really want.

 

[wannaBMrsH]

We didn''t get married in Mexico, we were married in the Dominican Republic, but our marriage was legal and is recognized in the US.

When we selected our wedding package, we choose the legal/religious option. We did all the preparation here in the US (gathering all the documentaion such as birth certificates, baptismal certificates, divorce decree, religious annulment, religious pre-cana, etc.) and once we had all documents, we sent them to both the officiant and the resort and they translated everything.

Once we were married, it took about 2 months to get our final marriage license from Santo Domingo, but it included the apostille and was already translated into English for us. We received our religious certificate the day of the wedding and we had no issues having it recognized by our church in the US.

Do you know if your resort offers anything like that? For ours the difference between a "symbolic" wedding and a legal one was less than $150 and I honestly didn''t want to have a separate wedding date from the one everyone attended.

I hope that helps...