WE WANT TO GET MARRIED IN ITALY, HOW TO PROCEED WITH THE MARRIAGE BANNS?
Italian citizens residing abroad and registered with AIRE must request marriage banns from this Consulate General if at least one of the bride and groom is resident in the consular district of Brussels (otherwise please contact the Italian municipality directly or the relevant consulate).
MARRIAGE BANNS MUST BE REQUESTED 6 MONTHS BEFORE THE DATE OF CELEBRATION OF THE WEDDING
To request marriage banns, you must send the original documentation listed below to this Consular Office via ordinary mail or by leaving the envelope at our reception during opening hours to the public*, duly completed and signed.
* from Monday to Friday from 09.00 to 12.30 + on Wednesday from 14.00 to 16.00.
The documentation to be presented is the following:
– Marriage banns request form, signed by both bride and groom.
The non-EU citizen’s signature on the marriage banns request form must be legalized . This legalization must be carried out at the municipality or at the diplomatic-consular representation of residence.
– Substitutive certification declaration to be filled in by each italian citizen;
– Request in original for marriage banns by the parish priest celebrating the wedding in Italy, bearing the church’s stamp and his signature (FORM X/10) ;
– Photocopy of valid identity documents of both bride and groom;
Where one of the engaged parties is a foreigner, the latter must produce the following documents :
- his/her full birth certificate (long form) complete with maternity and paternity, duly legalized and translated into Italian where applicable
- the “certificate of marriage capacity”. This last document must be requested from the competent authority of the country to which you belong if you are a citizen of one of the following states: Austria, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. Except for specific exceptions, this document is issued by foreign diplomatic-consular representations accredited in Italy, since the marriage will be celebrated in Italy.
- if instead you are a citizen of a state other than those mentioned above, you must present the “marriage authorization” issued by the competent diplomatic-consular authorities of the country of citizenship accredited in Italy, duly legalized at the Italian Prefecture and translated into Italian. This legalization by the Prefecture is not necessary for documents issued by a foreign diplomatic or consular representation resident in Italy of the following States adhering to the London Convention of 7 June 1968 or the Brussels Convention of 25 May 1987: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine (from 6 April 2023).
The consular officer will verify the accuracy of the documentation produced and might ask any further document necessary to prove the non-existence of impediments to marriage. Please remember that the documentation must be sent in original.
Once the necessary checks have been carried out, the bride and groom will be contacted by the consular officer via e-mail to complete the procedure and to pay the consular fees on the spot (via Bancontact).
Once the period of publication on the Consular Notice Board has ended (8 days + 3 days), the consular office will send the Civil Registrar of the Municipality where the marriage will be celebrated, “certificate of completed marriage banns” + the Delegation to celebrate the marriage.
In the case of a religious marriage, the “certificate of completed marriage banns”and the delegation will be sent to the e-mail address indicated by the parish priest in the request for banns . It will be possible to collect the originals of these two documents by appointment.
The marriage must be celebrated within 180 days from the date of issue of the Delegation.