Marriage is a new stage of life when a couple makes life-long commitment to each other. Before you speak the wedding vows to your beloved, please remember to register your marriage.

The minimum age for getting married is 16 years of age (Gregorian reckoning). There are no residential requirements for marriage and the marrying parties may be of any nationality.

Under the Laws of Hong Kong, you will have to go through the following procedures for solemnizing a marriage in Hong Kong:

• Either one of you has to give a Notice of Intended Marriage (the notice) to the Registrar of Marriages (the Registrar) in the prescribed form either directly or through a civil celebrant of marriages.
• The Registrar shall exhibit Part I of the notice in his office until the issue of a Certificate of Registrar of Marriages or the expiry of the 3-month period.
• The Registrar may, at least 15 days after the giving of a notice, issue a Certificate of Registrar of Marriages to enable you to celebrate your marriage within three months from the date of notice giving if all the statutory requirements are met.
• A marriage has to take place at a marriage registry by a Registrar; or in a licensed place of worship by a competent minister or at any other place in Hong Kong by a civil celebrant of marriages.

If the marriage does not take place within three months after the giving of the notice, the notice and all proceedings thereupon shall be void. You have to give another notice before getting married.

You can click on the following links for information of registration of a marriage, including giving the notice on the prescribed form in Hong Kong or from places outside Hong Kong, celebrating your marriage in different venues as well as post-registration of marriage taken place in Hong Kong before 7 October 1971.

• How to Give a Notice of Intended Marriage
  http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/immigration/bdmreg/marriage/marreg/givingnotice/index.htm
• How to Give a Notice of Intended Marriage from Places Outside Hong Kong
  http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/immigration/bdmreg/marriage/marreg/intendmarout.htm
• Celebration of Marriage
  http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/immigration/bdmreg/marriage/marreg/celebration.htm
• Post-registration of Marriage
  http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/immigration/bdmreg/marriage/marreg/postreg.htm