Non-ceremonial registration of marriage at the registry office

By registering a marriage, two citizens officially notify the state of their decision to become a family. With this step, a man and a woman undertake a number of obligations to each other and receive rights provided by law. The wedding ceremony does not necessarily have to be accompanied by rituals; the main thing in the procedure is that the future husband and wife receive a marriage certificate.

Registration of marriage, which lacks a formal part, some rituals and ceremonies, is in demand by couples where at least one partner or both have already been married. This form of relationship registration may be of interest to those who get married in adulthood or young people whose families seek to minimize wedding costs.

How is non-celebratory marriage registration carried out?

Formally, non-solemn registration of marriage looks like the signing of an agreement by two people in a government agency with the obligatory presence of an official. By signing in the deed book, both members of the future family thereby express their consent and confirm the voluntariness of this step.

However, it should be noted that this simplified form of marriage occurs only in regional registry offices. In specialized institutions - Wedding Palaces, marriage registration occurs only with the completion of all rituals and the solemn part.

Relatives and friends of the newlyweds may be present at the non-celebratory registration of the marriage. However, in some registry offices, due to the fact that such weddings take place on weekdays, when at the same time other work with visitors takes place in the institution, they limit the number of guests present. Typically, couples getting married come alone or only accompanied by witnesses.

The approach to the appearance of newlyweds is also diverse; in this situation, typical wedding outfits are completely unnecessary, so the newlyweds can be dressed completely non-festively, even in casual jeans and T-shirts. At the request of the heroes of the occasion, the marriage ceremony is recorded using photos and videos.

The usual algorithm for conducting a non-solemn marriage registration looks like this:

A couple who decides to start a family comes to the registry office on the appointed day.
They hand over their identification documents (passports) to the civil registry office employee for further processing.
The state inspector enters passport data into the act record he compiles.
A special form is created (marriage registration certificate) , which has its own registration marks and is subject to registration. The form is certified by the signature of a registry office employee and a seal.
On the pages of passports reserved for indicating the marital status of the citizen , both members of the new family are stamped.
If one spouse changes his surname due to marriage, an additional note is made on the first page of his passport. This passport will need to be changed within one month.
At the end of the non-celebratory marriage procedure, applicants are invited to a separate office, where they are given their common new document certifying the birth of a new family.

New status

The third couple, who went home in a new status, turned out to be no less interesting, but, alas, did not want to dedicate the journalist to their personal life. A miniature girl in ankle boots with huge stiletto heels, a black evening dress and bright red lipstick, and a tall guy in a sports bike entered the office, holding hands. When the signatures were placed, the young wife clapped her hands so enthusiastically and childishly, jumping up and down in her chair, that everyone involuntarily began to smile. And her husband, looking at her emotional reaction, as if teasingly, waved the evidence in front of her nose. “At marriage registration, regardless of whether it is accompanied by ceremonial elements or not, I have never seen gloomy and sad faces,” states Natalya Filimonova.

What days does non-celebratory registration take place?

An application for non-solemn registration of marriage can be submitted five weeks before the date planned by the future spouses. The registry office employee will accept the documents and offer available dates and times for the event. Usually, due to the regulations and work schedule of the registry office, non-ceremonial registrations are carried out more often on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and rarely on Saturday and Sunday.

Weekends, especially during the wedding season, are busy with special events.

However, the legislation of the Russian Federation provides for circumstances in which the period between filing an application and the actual act of registering a marriage is reduced and may take one to two days.

Such circumstances include:

Serious health condition and threat to the life of one of those entering into marriage.
Pregnancy (when submitting an application in the early stages, you must have a certificate about this circumstance from the antenatal clinic).
The birth of a child, in connection with which it becomes necessary to have a marriage certificate to determine paternity in the baby’s birth certificate.
All other situations are considered by the heads of the registry offices on an individual basis.

Basic information

The marital union is officially concluded 1 month after filing the application. Future spouses can decide on the ceremony:

no celebration, ordinary quick painting;
in a solemn atmosphere.

The non-celebratory marriage procedure is as follows:

the couple enters the office and provides the employee with their passports;
a representative of the registry office checks passports, after which he makes a speech - it will be shorter than at the ceremony;
the employee asks the newlyweds if they agree to get married;
if both applicants answer in the affirmative, the corresponding stamps are affixed to the passports;
spouses sign the registration book;
the registry office representative declares the couple husband and wife;
spouses receive a certificate of union.

The ceremonial registration takes place almost exactly the same. Witnesses may be invited to the ceremony hall, the permissible number of which is discussed in advance. Additionally, the couple can order other services from the registry office - photo and video shooting, champagne, snacks.

In Moscow, marriage registration can be carried out on the territory of cultural and historical sites, having previously concluded an agreement on the provision of services with authorized organizations.

Residents of other regions can only carry out symbolic exit registration - after the official procedure at the registry office.

Cost of non-solemn marriage registration

The cost of registering a marriage primarily consists of paying the state fee. From January 1, 2015, changes were made to the taxation procedure; in this regard, both members of the future family must pay a tax in the amount of 350 rubles .
However, there can only be one payment receipt, so payment must be made jointly; this can be done using a terminal in Sberbank or via the Internet. As for the receipt itself, it has no statute of limitations, and if the spouses were unable to come to the registry office to carry out registration within the appointed time, then they can later use this document to re-submit the application.

If the newlyweds opted for a quiet ceremony without photographs or video recording, then this will be the end of the registration costs.

In some registry offices, employees are adamant and allow filming only by their regular employees. The price for this service varies greatly depending on the region. On average, one photo costs around 300 rubles. The situation is the same with video recording; ordering it at the regional registry office as an additional service will add costs to registration.

Registry office opening hours

Like any institution, enterprise or government body, registry offices also have a specific work schedule.
However, across the territory of Russia it is not established uniformly for each branch. Therefore, before contacting, it is worth finding out the opening hours for a specific address.

Today there are no 24-hour registry offices in Russia; they operate only during the daytime. It is worth noting that each of them has a lunch break.

Opening days may also vary. There are branches that are open from Monday to Friday, some are open from Tuesday to Saturday, and there are also those that have no days off and are open every day.

In order not to waste time on the road, you can always look up the work schedule on the Internet, using the websites of specific registry offices or the website of the State Registration Service.

Non-solemn marriage registration: how to apply?

The minimum period for filing applications for marriage registration will be approximately a month before the event, the maximum period for this is two months. In many Wedding Palaces, during the wedding season, convenient dates and weekends are booked in advance. Those getting married have to wait in long lines to apply for the desired day and time of the wedding.

Therefore, if there is such an opportunity, registry office employees offer to choose several possible dates for marriage; this also applies to those who get married using non-solemn registration, since in the summer months and early autumn it is a busy time for the registry office.

To submit an application, the bride and groom must provide the registry office employees with;

A completed application form for the decision to start a family (the application is filled out at the registry office).
Passports of the bride and groom.
Receipt for payment of state duty in the amount of 350 rubles . Paid through Sberbank ATMs.
Divorce certificate , if at least one of the future spouses was previously married. In the event of the death of a former spouse, a death certificate is provided.
For minor brides and grooms, permission from their parents to marry is required.

An application for marriage will not be accepted for consideration:

For persons who are already in another marriage;
Close relatives, as well as adoptive parents and adopted children equated to this category.
If one of the parties to the marriage is declared incompetent by the court due to mental disabilities.

In person or online?

Hundreds of thousands of marriages are registered every year in the capital's registry offices and wedding palaces. These are the same hundreds of thousands of applications, so queues and long waits are a common situation for everyone who wants to personally submit documents for registration.

If you are not afraid of the likelihood of multiple trips to the nearest registry office and night vigils under its walls, you can try to apply the old fashioned way.

For more advanced couples who value their time, a more modern type of document acceptance has been introduced in Moscow since 2012 - online. Electronic applications are accepted on the websites of all departments of the registry office and wedding palaces of the capital, as well as on the city portal of state and municipal services.

How to do it:

Register on the registry office website or portal, receive a login and password
Having gained access to the page, carefully enter the information in all sections, mark the convenient day and time of registration
Using a payment card, pay 350 rubles - the state fee

All you need to do next is to prepare for the celebration and arrive for registration on such a long-awaited day.

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