Hello!
Kind of a weird post topic but if people can ask where to eat in Vancouver, or other things, then I guess this is a fair question
How easy is it to just get married in Montreal. Or maybe Quebec city?
Me and the Luffomylife are definitely either getting married , this fall on an island in the Queen Charlottes or maybe at the end of June in Montreal. Both cool ideas, but only one means I get to wear the pretty dress with the embroidery…
We both lived there (at different times) and the person who introduced us lives there. So its kind of fitting. plus we want to see an Expos game. And if we’re on vacation anyway…
My/ Our plan was to fly there on the Wednesday and fly back on the monday. Sooooo, marriage either the Thursday or Friday.
What do we need to get a judge to say we are married in Montreal, on a Thursday… (or friday) Do you make an appointment? Apoply for a license? I know Quebec has a different civil law than the ROC (rest of Canada), how does this affect the “walk in wedding?”
Im just too tired to try to figure out how to look up the info on the net right now.
Start here and download (in PDF format) and print the request form for a marriage certificate. Call 1-800-567-3900 to request an appointment for a civil marriage, which can be performed at the court house (the Palais de Justice on St-Antoine street in scenic Old Montreal). Immediately after the ceremony, have your filled-out form and $15 ready and your marriage certificate can be mailed back to your home. You can cough up $35 for expeditied processing, but it doesn’t seem necessary.
Congratulations.
By the way, more general information regarding Quebec marriage declarations can be found here. You’ll have to sign a “Declaration of Marriage” form upon completion of the civil ceremony.
Can I laugh? Laugh a lot?
Because I, too live in Vancouver, and next summer MrsB and I are finally having a wedding ceremony in Montreal! (We figure that we’ve been together for 10 years, so we’re gonna stick together.)
Wanna meet for a pint and compare notes?
Wow Barbarian that is funny. the luffomylife and I have known each other for ten years too. We met the first of May, 1992. Part of me wants to lean over to the person who introduced us and say “this is all your fault” during the ceremony.
Let me know how your wedding goes. Is "next summer 2003, or in a few months? Congrats to you.
Bryan, thank you so much for the web sites. I guess I also want to ask whats the likelyhood of a lapsed lutheran and a lapsed united church member getting a wedding by a “faith-type” person rather than a judge/ justice of the peace/ whatever type person.
And do Quebec civil ceremonies do that nasty thing that Ontario civil ceremonies do, where they say "if you divorce, its 50-50 division of assets and joint custody of children, unless otherwise ordered by law. I almost choked when I heard THAT part of the ontario ceremony, a few years ago. (The year the snow lasted longer than my friend’s marriage.)
So civil was going to be completely out, until we thought about Montreal… depends on a lot of things. We also thought about being retro and going to Niagra falls, since both our parents went there on their honeymoon.
Next summer is summer 2003. Obviously, we’ve decided to look a lot before we leap. 
I don’t think they mention divorce at a Quebec civil ceremony. I’ll ask my bloke Maudit, since he civilly tied the knot about 3 years ago.
My late grandfather’s Lutheran minister seemed pretty cool, and he sees lots of lapsed people. He’d probably marry you.
I have no idea what church he belongs to though, since I’ve never been to one.
Barbarian, is this minister in Montreal?
Or here, ie Lower Mainland?
And yes, I want to know the text of the PQ civil ceremony, because Im NOT getting married if they talk about divorce in the ceremony. I’d rather just be shaked up.
Its kind of getting to be bare minimum notice to go for this. It involves a bunch of job manoevering to get any time off this summer. (I quit my temporary job and go to my permanent, and somehow get 2 extra days off. then because of scheduled days off in each position I get a whole week off in prime vacation time…which a bottom feeder of the seniority list like myself shouldnt get.)
Not shaked up, as in shaken not stirred , but shacked up… crucial difference.