Wedding cost and promise ring (Australia)?
A promise ring is the current version of the friendship rings that were around in the 60s – i.e. a ring that signals that you are going steady and that a proposal is in the offing but some time down the track, at which time you will get an engagement ring. Not something that we do much in Australia. Re cost of the legal side of weddings. The legal side of a wedding covers the paperwork basically as well as having a ceremony that complies with the Marriage Act. For all weddings in Australia you have to: a. fill in a Notice of Intended Marriage and lodge that with your celebrant or clergyperson a minimum of a clear month before the wedding day. b. show proofs of ID (birth certificates) and, if you have been married before proof of how that marriage ended (divorce or death certificate) c. sign the statutory declarations on the back of the marriage certificate before the ceremony starts (up to 2-3 weeks before the wedding). Each of you declares that you are not married to anyone else, that
