Civil Wedding in Cebu

[ana07cutiepie]

Hi guys!

Me and my man, we are planning to get married here in Cebu and do a simple one which is the civil wedding on March 2012. He will only stay here in Philippines for 3weeks and he wanted to be in Boracay for 10days as it is our favourite place- we called it the Paradise.

March would be a very busy month for me since I'll graduate on that month. March 19 is the date of graduation. My man will arrive here in Cebu on the 15th of March. And I have already asked about the schedules of the seminar it's every Wednesday and Friday. So I have decided that we will do the seminar on the 16th of March but then we have to wait for 10days and my question is that the weekends are they counted?

How much would be the possible cost of the judge?

Am really so confused as I don't know what to do with the dates and the Boracay.. I don't know how to organize this stuff and it is depressing.

Please help me guys...

[grahamw48]

The Judge is a public servant and there should be an official scale of charges....for Filipinos.

As your partner is a 'cano', be prepared to be asked 10 times the amount.

[ana07cutiepie]

The Judge is a public servant and there should be an official scale of charges....for Filipinos.

As your partner is a 'cano', be prepared to be asked 10 times the amount.

yeah am sure they will try to trick us :( I hate those kind of people

[sim&lil]

We paid about P3000 for the judge to do our civil wedding ceremony. But we did get married in the regional court, so it may be different if he is doing it at a different venue.

[grahamw48]

Just phone the venue (city hall, or wherever) and ASK.

Fore-warned is fore-armed.

If he charges more and the difference goes in his pocket he is breaking the law.

[Tawi2]

Ana,cant you get a wedding-planner to organise things for you,it will be less stressful to let them burden the load and take it off your shoulders Just a thought anyway Congrats on your forthcoming graduation and wedding

[lastlid]

We used a third party (a sort of wedding planner) to deal with the wedding formalities and therefore managed to fit everything in to just over 2 weeks including exchange of CNI at the UK embassy in Manila, a civil wedding in Paranaque, wedding reception in Cavite and 7 days holiday / honeymoon in Laguna and Boracay. Unfortunately it cost us a good few pesos but we fitted it all in to a tight schedule. So tight in fact that any problems on the way like a delayed release of the local CNI might have prevented us from marrying. One of biggest advantages was that we managed to get "dispensation" on the seminar which saved us a few days.

So 3 weeks should be ample time.

The third party dealt with arranging the advance wedding ceremony etc etc (excluding the wedding reception which we organised ourselves). I was very sceptical about the possible outcome but it all worked perfectly. Fortunately my wife's cousins had used the same people, they both married Koreans, so I was happy enough to go ahead with the arrangement.


Dropped off CNI to embassy on thursday.
Collected local CNI on friday.
Submitted CNI and papers to Reverend etc on monday.
Married on tuesday.
Departed Phils on the saturday, 11 days later.


I would give you the contact details but they are based in Manila (Paranaque).

[Tawi2]

Theres a number of cebuano wedding planners online.
http://www.weddingplannercebu.com/aboutus.html

[RickyR]

We got married in Cebu earlier this year, although in a church rather then civil. If you want to talk to my wife about it I can give you her number in Cebu, she's in Cebu for a week or so until she flies over to Muscat and would happy to explain some of the processes.

I have a friend who is a British-Australian expat living in Cebu and running a specialist business with his Filipina wife Elsa. The website is www.cebuexpatservices.com and they do a lot of wedding planning, and knows the processes back to front and can do the legwork if you'd prefer. They are very trustworthy, and have straight up clear prices, and have agreements with many local hotels and facilities. Although we didn't use them for wedding planning, they did provide a band for our wedding who were absolutely fantastic. Just tell him that Ricky and Marvie sent you.

One thing that we did do was negotiate with the venue a corkage fee and bought a lot of alcohol from Makro and an outside caterer. The big reason I did this was because I knew that some of my Filipino relatives would struggle to afford the hotel alcohol prices, and I really wanted people just to enjoy the wedding without worrying how much money they are spending.

[ConfusedMe]

Wow... This is really fantastic Ricky.. Me and my husband are planning to renew our wedding in Cebu so my family back home can attend as well.... Thanks for the info

We got married in Cebu earlier this year, although in a church rather then civil. If you want to talk to my wife about it I can give you her number in Cebu, she's in Cebu for a week or so until she flies over to Muscat and would happy to explain some of the processes.

I have a friend who is a British-Australian expat living in Cebu and running a specialist business with his Filipina wife Elsa. The website is www.cebuexpatservices.com and they do a lot of wedding planning, and knows the processes back to front and can do the legwork if you'd prefer. They are very trustworthy, and have straight up clear prices, and have agreements with many local hotels and facilities. Although we didn't use them for wedding planning, they did provide a band for our wedding who were absolutely fantastic. Just tell him that Ricky and Marvie sent you.

One thing that we did do was negotiate with the venue a corkage fee and bought a lot of alcohol from Makro and an outside caterer. The big reason I did this was because I knew that some of my Filipino relatives would struggle to afford the hotel alcohol prices, and I really wanted people just to enjoy the wedding without worrying how much money they are spending.