Book a wedding at City Hall
At City Hall, we officiate civil marriages. Here you will find information about what is important to consider and how to book a wedding.
Getting married at City Hall is very popular, so there is often a long waiting time.
Fee
A wedding ceremony at City Hall costs SEK 1,200.
If you do not show up for your booked wedding, you will still be liable to pay. If you have cancelled your wedding time and want the fee refunded, contact the wedding administration.
Send certificate to City Hall
Before the wedding, you need to make an impediment test. An examination of impediments is a certificate that shows that there are no impediments to you entering into marriage. You apply for an examination of impediments to the Swedish Tax Agency. The certificate is valid for four months.
Apply for an examination of impediments, the Swedish Tax Agency's website
When the examination of impediments is completed, you will receive a certificate of examination of impediments together with a marriage certificate from the Swedish Tax Agency. Send both certificates to City Hall. The certificates must be with us no later than the day stated in the e-service, or in the booking confirmation that you received when booking.
Send the original certificates to:
Vigslar Stadshuset
105 35 Stockholm
Once we have registered your certificates, you will receive a confirmation email from us.
If we do not receive the certificates in time, your wedding appointment will be cancelled.
The certificates must match the ID
Keep in mind that the name and social security number that appear on the examination of impediments and the marriage certificate must match your valid identification.
At the wedding, both members of the couple must show valid identification, otherwise the wedding will not take place. We accept Swedish ID cards and passports. If you do not have a Swedish ID card, a passport is required. Contact the wedding administration for more information.
Interpreter
Both persons getting married must understand the ceremony for it to be valid. If someone in the couple does not understand Swedish or English, you must have an interpreter. An interpreter must be booked via the wedding administration, so email us if an interpreter is needed. There is no fee to get help from an interpreter.
However, if we have booked an interpreter, and you do not come to your booked wedding, you will need to pay for the interpreter.
Book a wedding
You book an appointment for a wedding in the e-service Book a wedding.
Frequently asked questions about weddings at City Hall
A civil marriage is a marriage without religious elements.
Personal data is information that can be linked to a living person. This may include name, address and social security number. Photos of people are also classified as personal data.
We need to process your personal data in order to carry out your wedding. We process personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
The municipal executive board is the data controller for the information you provide to us. We pass on the information to the County Administrative Board.
Processing of personal data in connection with civil marriages
If you are a registered partner under the previous Partnership Act, you can convert your partnership into marriage. You can do this by filing a joint written notification to the Swedish Tax Agency or visiting a service office.
Convert registered partnership to marriage, the Swedish Tax Agency's website
Another way to convert a registered partnership into a marriage is for a qualified marriage officiant to marry you.
To book a wedding ceremony at City Hall, book an appointment in the e-service Book a wedding. We need your birth certificate, to be able to carry out the wedding. Birth certificates are ordered from the Swedish Tax Agency.
Order birth certificates, the Swedish Tax Agency's website
Send the birth certificates to City Hall no later than four weeks before the wedding to:
Vigslar Stadshuset
105 35 Stockholm
You do not need to carry out a new examination of impediments in connection with the change from registered partnership to marriage, whether you have a marriage ceremony or not.
If any of you have protected personal data, contact us via email or phone for assistance.
E-mail: vigsel@stockholm.se
Phone: 08-508 29 330
The documents that come to us are public documents. This means that we are obliged to disclose the documents for inspection or copying, if someone asks for it.
If any of you have protected personal data, we will not disclose the documents.
After the wedding, the officiant signs the marriage certificate.
If the marriage is in the City Hall, the marriage administrator sends the certificate to the Swedish Tax Agency, where the marriage is registered in the population register.
If you have a private wedding, i.e. in a place other than City Hall, the wedding officiant will send the marriage certificate to the City Hall. The marriage administrator at the City Hall then forwards the certificate to the Swedish Tax Agency without delay.
It is common for one of the spouses to change their surname in connection with the wedding. You apply for a name change either before or after the wedding. The form for applying for a name change is available on the Swedish Tax Agency's website.
Change to your spouse's surname, the Swedish Tax Agency's website
If you change your name before the wedding, but after applying for an examination of impediments, the name on the examination of impediments is not the same as the new name. In this case, you must send a register extract or a birth certificate for marriage from the Swedish Tax Agency to the City Hall.
Contact
Closed
- Phone hours
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 09.30–11.00
- Telephone
- Telephone 08-508 29 330
- Email vigsel@stockholm.se
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