04 aug, 2023
Marriage; some have dreamed about it since childhood, while others have no particular interest in it. Personally, I lean more towards the first category, so when my boyfriend proposed to be last year, I said a wholehearted yes! What I didn't know then was that by saying yes to my true love, I was also saying yes to application forms, emails to institutions I had never heard of and countless phone calls to Dutch, French, and Portuguese authorities. Fortunately, everything eventually fell into place, and on July 27th, o noivo and I exchanged our vows! Having spent almost a year gathering all the necessary documents, I can now consider myself an expert in this area. Therefore, I'd love to share my experience with you in this article, so that the preparations for your wedding in Portugal, as a non-Portuguese, will be much easier!