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Getting Married Abroad

Foreign marriages documents can be deposited with this office. Photocopies of these documents can then be obtained for a fee. Details of the marriage would also be included in our marriage indexes. These documents should be deposited via the British Consulate or Embassy in the country where the marriage occurred or retrospectively via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

More information on this process can be obtained from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website at the link below:

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/births-deaths-marriages-civil/marriage-and-civil-partnerships/depositing 

Alternatively, you may be interested to know about our Book of Scottish Connections (BSC). The BSC is a public record that allows people all over the world, with a Scottish connection, to apply for a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership abroad to be recorded in the BSC held by the Registrar General in Edinburgh.

For more information please see our section on the Book of Scottish Connections at the link below:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/regscot/book-of-scottish-connections.html