Getting married
Before you can get married in Denmark, you must apply for a certificate of marital status (prøvelsesattest).
Whether you must apply for a certificate of marital status from the City of Aarhus or from the Agency for Family Law (Familieretshuset) depends for instance on your citizenship.
You must apply for a certificate of marital status from the City of Aarhus)if both you and your partner meet at least one of the criteria below.
Both of you:
- are Danish citizens
- are citizens in another Nordic country
- hold a permanent residence permit in Denmark
- hold a permanent residence pursuant to the Executive Order on EU Residence
You apply for a certificate of marital status by filling in a marriage declaration. When the City of Aarhus has received the marriage declaration, we will check whether the conditions for marriage are satisfactory. If so, we issue a certificate of marital status to you.
The certificate of marital status is valid for four months. Therefore, you should wait to apply for the certificate when there are four months or less to the date of your wedding.
If your wedding ceremony is to take place in a locality different than the city hall, you will receive the certificate of marital status in the post. It shall be your own responsibility to forward the certificate to the authority that will be in charge of the performance of your wedding ceremony.