COPENHAGEN, Denmark– Encountering intricate administration in your home in Poland, Magdalena Kujawińska and her Colombian future husband Heinner Valenzuela took a trip to Copenhagen to come to be partner and better half.
” We understood that it’s not that simple to obtain wed in Poland,” the 30-year-old Kujawińska claimed as the pair awaited their 10-minute event at the Danish resources’s 19th-century Municipal government.
” You require a certification that you are not wed,” she claimed. “We attempted to obtain it from Colombia, yet it’s just legitimate for 3 months, and it could not reach Poland from Colombia in 3 months. It was simply difficult for us.”
The pair, that stay in Krakow, had actually been involved for greater than 3 years when Kujawińska read about Denmark’s fairly loosened up marital relationship legislations from a coworker. Collaborating with an on-line wedding event organizer, the pair prepared the required records.
” And in 4 days, we had the choice that the marital relationship might be done right here,” a grinning Kujawińska claimed.
Couples that do not stay in Denmark, both combined- and same-sex, are significantly obtaining wed in the Scandinavian nation– triggering some to refer to as Copenhagen the “Las Las Vega of Europe.”
The head of the marital relationship workplace at Copenhagen Municipal government, Anita Okkels Birk Thomsen, claimed that concerning 8,000 wedding were executed there in 2014. Of those, some 5,400 of them were for pairs in which neither companion was a Danish citizen.
” That’s nearly dual what we saw 5 years back,” she claimed. “They originate from throughout the globe.”
Yet the city sees a disadvantage to that: need for events at Municipal government currently much surpasses the variety of ports readily available.
Mia Nyegaard, the Copenhagen authorities accountable of society and recreation, claimed in a declaration to The Associated Press that the “considerable increase” in the variety of international pairs obtaining wed in the resources “postures obstacles for Copenhagen-based pairs wanting to obtain wed.”
Regional authorities intend to act. Nyegaard claimed concerning 40% of wedding event ports readily available at Municipal government will certainly be booked for Copenhagen homeowners beginning with completion of October. While scheduling a port there is one of the most evident means to obtain wed in the city, organizing an event with a personal registrar is likewise a choice, which will not be impacted.
Copenhagen legislators will certainly take care of the summer season break at what else they can do to soothe general stress on wedding event capability in the city.
Denmark’s marital relationship legislations are liberal in a number of methods. In 1989, the nation came to be the globe’s initial to enable the enrollment of same-sex civil unions. The legalisation of same-sex marital relationship adhered to in 2012.
For unions of all kinds, Denmark– unlike numerous various other European nations– does not need a birth certification or evidence of solitary standing to get a certification that gives the right to obtain wed in Denmark within 4 months. Authorities might, in situations where separation documents do not prove that a separation has actually been wrapped up, request a civil standing certification.
Applications to Denmark’s company of household legislation price 2,100 kroner ($ 326), and pairs are provided with a certification within 5 functioning days if they please the demands.
Non-resident pairs can take a trip to Denmark and obtain wed with simply a legitimate key and, if called for, a traveler visa.
” We obtain that point like, ‘Are you certain we do not require a birth certification?’ And we go, ‘Yes,'” claimed Rasmus Clarck Sørensen, supervisor of Marrying in Denmark.
Clarck Sørensen, a Dane, started the wedding event preparation organization with his British better half back in 2014.
” In the last 20, three decades, individuals simply fulfill a lot more throughout boundaries,” he claimed. “Marital relationship guidelines are frequently produced 2 individuals of the very same nation obtaining wed.”
” They type of overdone spots onto marital relationship legislation, and a great deal of individuals obtain caught in those spots,” he included.
His on the internet firm’s “Total Solution” bundle, valued at 875 euros ($ 1,014), consists of assistance event all the required records, refining the certification application and arranging the day of the event.
Business claims it aided over 2,600 pairs in 2014.
Copenhagen, conveniently Denmark’s most significant city with the nation’s ideal transportation web links, is one of the most preferred area therefore much seems the just one having problem with need.
Any type of adjustments to the city’s guidelines will certainly come far too late to trouble couples Kujawińska and Valenzuela, that are currently hectic intending a party in Poland with friends and family.
” It indicates a great deal for us since we have actually been waiting a great deal for this,” Kujawińska claimed. “We’re truly delighted.”
