Trixibelle

Oh lawks

We just had a meeting with our (probable) wedding photographer and whilst it was very useful and good and stuff it has made me P.A.N.I.C. big time. I feel exhausted and sick and shaky and I want to have a cry and a lie down. And the only reason I’m feeling so full of panic is because there is such an awful lot to organise, and I want to organise it NOW - I want to sort it and book it and pay for everything NOW and not have to worry about it for the next 10 months. But it aint gonna work like that. The whole process is going to muddle along in dribs and drabs whilst we wait for forms and documents and certificates to go back and forth and be legalised and be registered and be announced and oh my fuck. I’m going to go crazy. I just want all the legal stuff sorted NOW so I can start to organise all the other stuff - the venue, the food, the reception, the hotel.

This is a list of all the things that have to happen before I can do ANYTHING:

1. Get both of our birth certificates legalised (by sending our BCs to the UK, along with the right form filled in COMPLETELY correctly - if the form has a single mistake on it then they send it back and we start again)
2. Make appointment with the Gemeente (GBA) to provide said legalised forms and to make sure they have our correct address with the correct municipality.
3. Register with the Immigratie en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) by doing the following;

1. Call them, make an appointment to see them
2. They send a letter confirming the appointment which also includes the forms we have to fill in and the list of documents we will need to bring (which includes legalised Birth Certs and proof of Health Insurance)
3. We go to appointment, if everything is present and correct then we will get our sticker in our passport, if anything is wrong we will have to start WHOLE THING AGAIN aargh

1. Full legalised Birth Certs
2. Passports
3. Extract from GBA declaring marital status and nationality
4. Form ‘M46’(issed by IND, available from Stadhuis (town hall)
5. Certificate of Civil Status and/or Certificate of No Impending Marriage (available from British Consulate - no idea where they are or how we get that. Apparently it is obtained after our Notice of Marriage has been displayed at the Consulate General for 21 days).
6. Completed Witness forms (no idea where to find them)