Are foreigners required to attend pre-marriage seminars?

[king2565 1]

11 hours ago, John & Rose said:

If she has a CEMAR she can't marry.  The 10 days starts the day they accept the marriage license application.  They stamp that with the date and by Philippine law it is a minimum of 10 days.  Ours was 11 due to a holiday.  You will know when it is "ripe" when they accept the license application.

 

It takes a month or more to get the PSA marriage certificate after the registrar files the paperwork.  Just another area to pay for an "expedited service"....LOL

I do not mind paying whatever it cost   I’m shelling out 250k for the wedding. 

[John & Rose 7,239]

2 minutes ago, king2565 said:

I do not mind paying whatever it cost   I’m shelling out 250k for the wedding. 

We spent 30K and everything was awesome. We had food for 3 days and plenty of drinks. 100 people in an air conditioned room with karaoke. Everything was perfect. We even brought in our own lechon on top of what was catered. I don’t think we could have spend any more. We got everything we wanted and more. Cost was not anything we were concerned about. We got everything we wanted for 100 guests and the 30k covered it all. We were in the room for 12 hours too. 

[king2565 1]

1 hour ago, John & Rose said:

We spent 30K and everything was awesome. We had food for 3 days and plenty of drinks. 100 people in an air conditioned room with karaoke. Everything was perfect. We even brought in our own lechon on top of what was catered. I don’t think we could have spend any more. We got everything we wanted and more. Cost was not anything we were concerned about. We got everything we wanted for 100 guests and the 30k covered it all. We were in the room for 12 hours too. 

I hate spending that much but it is her first marriage so I want her to have her dream wedding.  It’s all about being able to share your special day with family and friends 

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1 minute ago, king2565 said:

I hate spending that much but it is her first marriage so I want her to have her dream wedding.  It’s all about being able to share your special day with family and friends 

Amen to that. I am so glad our journey gave us the opportunity to marry with her amazing family as witnesses.  It was all very special and that wouldn’t happen if we married in the states. 

[Hank_ 9,174]

7 hours ago, king2565 said:

I do not mind paying whatever it cost   I’m shelling out 250k for the wedding. 

That is about the norm for  a "venue weddings" .      Can't get a wedding that fancy in the USA for $5K        

[RO_AH 1,659]

I am just happy that the wedding of my wife's dream wedding was not a venue wedding. Having the party at her house where all of her family, friends and neighbors could attend was her dream. I thing we fed 200+ people and had lots of food leftover.

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On 8/29/2015 at 6:29 PM, Andy&Jiezel said:

just bring them some JCO doughnuts and they'll be happy.

That's one of the problems with the Philippines. You can get things done by greasing the palms of those running the show (aka corruption). The lawyer got some money from that other guy to pay a fixer to rush things. It's not a fair system for everyone across the board. Nepotism, "who you know", and money trump fairness and the law. Each province has different requirements. When I got married, I had to get a CENOMAR (even though I have never lived in the Philippines), had to get the affidavit from the US Embassy, a copy of your passport picture page and arrival stamp page, had to attend a marriage seminar before the civil registrar would process my marriage application, had to wait 10 days, etc. In my marriage seminar class, there were about 25 couples and it was in Tagalog. I don't speak that so I couldn't understand what they were saying. There was only one other foreigner, a Korean, in the class. They passed around an attendance sheet and it asked some details about you and your spouse.  5 of the couples already had kids. 

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