Buenos Aires Elopement Permits: What You Actually Need
A symbolic ceremony needs a site permission, not a licence, and the legal marriage is usually handled at home. Here is the whole picture, and who arranges it.
Couples assume marrying in Argentina means a bureaucratic wall.
For an elopement, most of it never applies.
A symbolic ceremony needs a site permission, not a licence, and the legal marriage is usually handled at home. Whatever does apply is my job, not yours.
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 1)
Argentina's legal marriage requires residency and a prenuptial health exam, so most foreign couples marry legally at home and hold a symbolic ceremony in Buenos Aires. For that, what you need is a permission for the specific site, a park, a plaza, a private venue, which varies by location.
Symbolic vs legal
Argentina's legal marriage requires residency and a prenuptial health exam, so most foreign couples marry legally at home and hold a symbolic ceremony in Buenos Aires. For that, what you need is a permission for the specific site, a park, a plaza, a private venue, which varies by location.
Who arranges it
For couples I work with, I secure the site permission, coordinate the officiant for the symbolic ceremony, and arrange the vendors, folding it into the tier. If you want the legal marriage in Argentina, that is a different, residency-bound process I can advise on.
As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, arrange the permissions, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the paperwork has been my job, never the couple's.
Want the whole Buenos Aires day handled? Start with the Elopement Compass →
