Marriage Registration in Thailand

RATHER THAN SIGN your marriage certificate at a stuffy registry office, a registered district officer can come to your Koh Samui Island Wedding, and your marriage proceedings will take place in paradise.

Once the necessary paperwork has been obtained from your embassies and government, the process of marrying legally in Thailand, then registering your marriage at home, is easy.

Legal Wedding Service Procedure
Koh Samui Island Weddings provides a Legal Representative to take you through all requirements in Bangkok and will then take care of everything needed to officiate the proceedings in Ko Samui.

Once in Bangkok, you can meet with the Legal Representative who will take you to lodge affidavits / statutory declarations with embassies. This form states your intention to have a legal wedding in Thailand, and that you are single and free to marry. If applicable, divorce or widow papers will need to be shown.

Your embassy will approve the document for a small fee depending on your embassy, which may or may not have additional requirements such as the British Embassy, who may request you leave your passport overnight. Public holidays and your flight dates to and from Bangkok should be taken into account for this.

Next, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the translated document needs to be shown and the application to marry will be lodged and approval received no later than one day. The paperwork is then required in Samui no later than 3 working days prior to your ceremony, after which Koh Samui Island Weddings will ensure all procedures are taken care of to register your marriage and you can then have certificates translated for recognition of your marriage at home. Depending on your travel dates, translation in Samui may require the certificates be sent to you at a later date, or you can take the certificates to have translated before you leave Bangkok.

You need only then supply this document to your local registry office for recognition of your marriage at home.

The process of a legal wedding in Thailand, when held at a breathtaking location with an officer that's full of smiles and best wishes has to be a lot more fun than anywhere else in the world. Koh Samui Island Weddings, will have you seated with the district officer, who will ask simple questions about things like how long you have been together and then have you sign the relevant documents.

You will be presented with Thai marriage certificates, which, once translated into English, are recognized by law in your own countries, and you are officially married.

The significance of a civil wedding, like anywhere else, is in the signing of legal marriage document and can be quite different to the actual ceremony where you declare your lifelong love and commitment to one another. And so, with a Koh Samui Island Wedding, it is the ceremony itself that will be truly significant to the both of you.

This service is applicable to both foreigners wanting a legal marriage in Thailand and foreigners.