Elopement Apostille

I've always heard to legally get married here in the States (or maybe your home country is somewhere else) because there is a lot of red tape and legal processes for making a "foreign" marriage legal here. Could save yourselves a lot of headaches by going that route.

View Quoted Comment Thank you!

Greek elopements are so complicated! We're doing the legal paperwork to be married here in the States and doing a symbolic ceremony in Santorini 😊

View Quoted Comment We just decided to do the same thing. My fiancé and I are also getting married in Santorini!

View Quoted Comment I love it!! We're so excited. Where are you getting married? We're staying at Dana Villas and doing a sunrise ceremony at Skaros Rock. Touring the island for pictures for the rest of the day! Cannot wait.

View Quoted Comment Congratulations that is going to be a dream! Dana Villas is lovely. We are getting married at Cocoon Suites and honeymooning there in Santorini. Can’t wait. We lucked out with some great vendors! Only 46 days away!!

We used nationalapostille.com and wasted over $1300 because we leave for Greece tomorrow and still haven't gotten all of our paperwork back to make it legal there. If you have a planner ask them what all do you need. We needed two single affidavits, my birth certificate, his birth certificate, the notarized marriage certificate from your state and if your state does single status letters (Alabama does not), you'll need to send all that paperwork in, pay to get an apostille for each one. Then some of that will need to be translated and it is $95 per 250 words. Right now everyone has delays so the sooner you can get it done the better.


I hope that helps. I would have loved to have been given some sort of heads up ahead of time so I wouldn't have ended up paying a ton of money for a fake ceremony. I know, I know, it's "symbolic". But we registered our certificate 2 days ago, in sweatpants, in a dark corner of the courthouse with a secretary saying "That'll be $82... Congratulations!" on a day that means absolutely nothing to either of us but is now our wedding date. If I had known that after 2 postponements, 10s of thousands of dollars, my legal wedding would turn symbolic days before the planned date, I would have just got married in my living room with my 10yo as the officiant.