Has anyone gone through Family Planning and Marriage Counselling

[ivantulier 1]

I am getting married in Manila I am just wondering when you have all the forms from the U.S. Embassy and go to city hall and apply for the wedding license can the start the waiting period before the family planning and Marriage counsel is done. Second questions is can this Family planning and Marriage conusel can be avoid due age requirements and can it be done the same day that you apply for the wedding license or if their is a need for a an appointment? Thanks

[Atencio 43]

I am 48 and wife is 44 and we had to go through the family planning class. I would suspect that you will get many different answers to your question based on what city you will be getting married in. The whole marriage process seems to vary somewhat from town to town.

In Butuan we had to attend the class. They usually don't allow you to turn in the marriage application to start the waiting period until you have attended the class. Some sweet talking to the head of the department resulted in her giving us the completion form for the class as long as we promised to attend that week.

The class was really a waste of time for us. Our class looked geared toward the young early 20 couples. Discussed financing, relationships, etc. Luckily there was a brown-out that morning and we were allowed to leave after three hours.

[Loolie 56]

I am getting married in Manila I am just wondering when you have all the forms from the U.S. Embassy and go to city hall and apply for the wedding license can the start the waiting period before the family planning and Marriage counsel is done. Second questions is can this Family planning and Marriage conusel can be avoid due age requirements and can it be done the same day that you apply for the wedding license or if their is a need for a an appointment? Thanks

some people use money to pay the marriage counselor so they can just give them the class certificate and not attend the class...they do that pretty much there. when we applied for the class the lady told us there will be two foreigners that will attend the counselling but when we were there at the class it was just my hubby that was a foreigner so i was thinking the other couple paid them. thats how they do it but its really not a good idea.