• You will need to obtain a "Notice of Intended Marriage Form" which you must give to your celebrant at least a month before the wedding. Your celebrant can help you fill out the form. The notice may be completed and witnessed outside Australia if required.
• If you have less than one month before the wedding talk to your celebrant. A prescribed authority may approve a shorter notice time in some limited circumstances.
• You will need to give your celebrant the following documents:
  • Completed Notice of Intended Marriage Form
  • Evidence of date and place of birth
  • Identification
  • If either of the parties were previously married: divorce papers or any proof that the previous marriage has ended
  • The celebrant may also ask you to complete a statutory declaration to support your documents

• Completed Notice of Intended Marriage Form
• Evidence of date and place of birth
• Identification
• If either of the parties were previously married: divorce papers or any proof that the previous marriage has ended
• The celebrant may also ask you to complete a statutory declaration to support your documents

Marriage Law and Celebrants Section
Phone: 1800 550 343
Outside Australia: +61 2 1800 550 343
Email: marriagecelebrantssection@ag.gov.au
Fax: 02 6141 3246
Address: 3-5 National Circuit

To be legally married in Australia applicants must:

• not be married to someone else
• not be marrying a parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother or sister
• be at least eighteen years old, unless a court has approved a marriage where one party is aged between sixteen and eighteen years old
• understand what marriage means and freely consent to becoming husband and wife
• use specific words during the ceremony
• give written notice of their intention to marry to their authorised celebrant, within the required time frame.

Note: You don't have to be an Australian citizen or a permanent resident of Australia to get married in the country.

Explain the fees structure which is required for obtaining the certificate/document.

Explain the time until which the certificate/document is valid.
e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Marriage stationery and forms

Please attach sample completed documents that would help other people.

Please explain processing time taken in obtaining the document/certificate.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
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Please provide instructions on obtaining the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

A list which displays the kind of information which is required to complete the procedure.
e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.

Please provide the need for the procedure. 
e.g. Birth Certificate - why do we need to have a birth certificate? 

Getting Married Overseas

An overseas marriage cannot be registered in Australia.

An overseas marriage will generally be recognised in Australia if it:

• was a valid marriage in the overseas country
• would have been recognised as valid under Australian law if the marriage had taken place in Australia.

Same-sex relationships

Same-sex marriages entered into in other countries are not recognised as legal marriages in Australia. The law defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

There are some state and territory governments in the country that allows people to register their same-sex relationship. Find out more information from state and territory registries of births, deaths and marriages - LINK.

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

• Attorney General's Department:

http://www.ag.gov.au/FamiliesAndMarriage/Marriage/Pages/Getting-married.aspx

More information which might help people.