Need copy of marriage certificate, can't remember date!

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Please can someone point me in the right direction🙏 I need the certificate from my first marriage in order to complete my passport application, I'm fairly certain of the year but I cant remember the and on the government website for ordering certificates the date is required.
Is there any way to find out?
Thanks in advance 😊

My mum would know...could you ask a family member?

My mum would know mine I mean. I don’t think she will know yours unfortunately.

How can you not remember when you got married? Will your family or friends who attended your wedding remember the date?

Can you ask the register office/ church that conducted the ceremony?

You don't need to if you order from the gro as they will search around a 2 year period for you. I don't know if that is the case outside England and Wales.

Why can't I remember? well it was in the 1980s, cut me some slack🤣
I have tried contacting the register office but there don't appear to be any humans available to speak on the phone 🙄

off on a bit of a tangent but this whole thing where you have to order certificates and pay 15 quid for each one ....well it's just a rip-off to make more money out of us isn't it?
Why can't you just give them the information and they can check that the records say that the marriage or the birth or whatever did take place?
75 quid for a passport and then another 30 quid because I have to order two certificates 🙄🤦‍♀️

Are you sure you need the exact date? I order certificates all the time for doing family tree and I never know the date.

You don't' need the exact date, just the quarter, and they'll search either side of the possible date.

It is odd that you don't know - I got married for the first time in the 80s too, the date will live in infamy in my memory

It's not odd at all.
I have no clue of even the year of my first marriage.

"Why can't I remember? well it was in the 1980s, cut me some slack"

I got married in 1981 and can remember the exact date.

my first wedding was in 1974 and i can still remember tha date, do you still have any photos they might have the date stamped on the back of them

I'm sure if you have your decree absolute it will be on there.

No it's not a rip off - you're ordering a copy because presumably you can't find the original. You only need an official copy for certain purposes. It's not as if they are making you order the certificate. The cost of the original will have been covered by the fees you paid for the marriage service at the time.

Are you in touch with your ex to ask them?

Do you have any family who may recall the month?

What was the weather like?

It will be on ancestry.com

Join the month free trial and search your name.

This one

www.ancestry.co.uk/?&geo_a=r&geo_s=us&geo_t=uk&geo_v=2.0.0&_ga=2.151412345.1754381382.1558562020-178637103.1558562020&o_iid=41013&o_lid=41013&o_sch=Web+Property

I have a short first marriage from 1980s also and no clue now what day it was, other than the month.

What is the matter with some people!

Thanks to all those who replied 😊
I managed to find my divorce documents and the marriage date was on there, in my memory I had a vague idea it might have been Summer but turns out it was in December 🤭

You've really moved on from that marriage, OP!

He he, you betcha
😁😁

My next move would have been to ask Flower777's mum, she sounds more knowledgeable than Google ☺️

I can’t for the life of me remember the date of my first marriage 16 years ago! I forgot after the first year to be honest.

I can’t for the life of me remember date or even month I got married was 30 odd years ago I was only 18 only lasted a year or so been with my partner now since I was 20 n we now want to get married but don’t know how I can get a copy of the marriage certificate with out the date :(