Religious Weddings Malta, Marriage Registry Malta

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Religious Weddings

Author: Mario Scicluna (TheWeddingSite.com)

Documents required

Three months prior to the marriage date, you should make a request for the publication of Marriage Banns at the Public Registry of Malta.

You should provide:

a. Birth certificates of Bride and Groom showing parents' name

b. Identity cards and copies thereof

c. A photocopy of the identity cards of the witnesses

d. RZ1 and RZ2 forms duly signed

(these will be provided by the Public Registry or downloaded from the Public Registry of Malta website - http://www.mjha.gov.mt/services/marriageregistry.html)

The Marriage Registrar should be given the following information:

a. The church or place where the marriage will be held

b. The date of marriage

c. The name of the priest who will celebrate the marriage ceremony

d. The surname which the bride will be using after marriage (ie: her maiden surname/her husband's or both)

Please note that children always take the father's surname.

Place of Marriage

Religious Weddings are celebrated in the church of one’s denomination.

Click here for contact details of Catholic Chaplains and other Religious Denominations in Malta and Gozo. One is advised to make certain of one’s place of marriage before requesting the Publication of Banns.

One should keep in mind that, in order to change the place of marriage with which it had been originally notified, the Marriage Registry needs at least three weeks’ notice.

Ten days prior to the marriage date...

Ten days prior to the marriage date the couple are to collect three documents prepared by the Marriage Registry and submit them to the Parish Priest of the place where the wedding ceremony will be held.

After the Wedding Mass, together with the witnesses and the priest who administered the Wedding Sacrament, the couple should sign their Marriage Certificate; the bride should sign using her maiden surname.

Attn Foreigners:

Persons who have never been married must produce a Free Status Certificate from their local Registrar. If the registrar cannot issue such a certificate, a declaration in the same sense by a member of the legal profession would be accepted, provided that the declaration is the legal person’s own, made after due research, and not your own affidavit.

Related Web links

More information about the Marriage Registry

http://www.mjha.gov.mt/services/marriageregistry.html

Application Forms for the required Certificates:

http://certifikati.gov.mt/pages/downloads_en.asp

Online Ordering of Certificates:

http://certifikati.gov.mt/?lng=en

Contacting the Public Registry

Contact the Marriage Registry of Malta for up-to-date requirements,

application forms and other information:

Public Registry of Malta

197,

Merchant Street,

Valletta

The Marriage Registry of Malta

26,

Old Treasury Street

Valletta

CMR 02

Telephone: (+356) 21 221 775

Fax: (+356) 21 249 234

The Public Registry of Gozo

Rabat

Gozo

Telephone: (+356) 21 553 732

Email: pubreg.marriage@gov.mt

The information has been compiled by TheWeddingSite.com with the help of the Marriage Registry of Malta and is correct as at 1st June 2003. TheWeddingSite.com is not responsible for any omissions or incorrectness of the information provided. Contact the Marriage Registry for up-to-date information.

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