Forms for giving notice can be obtained from any registrar of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland. A civil marriage may be solemnised only by a registrar or an assistant registrar who has been authorised by the Registrar General for that purpose. You can each obtain a marriage notice form, and information about fees, from any registrar of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland. In most cases you can get the address of your local registrar from the telephone directory. Each of you must complete and submit a marriage notice, along with the required documents and the appropriate fee, to the registrar for the district in which the marriage is to take place.
Timing is important.
The notices must be submitted early enough to enable the registrar to satisfy himself that you are free to marry one another. Normally notices should be in his hands about FOUR weeks before the marriage but if either party has been married before, the notices should be with the registrar SIX weeks beforehand. The mimimum period is 15 days before the date of the proposed marriage, but if you leave things as late as this you could be faced with the need to postpone your marriage. Only in exceptional circumstances will the Registrar General authorise a marriage to take place if 15 days' notice has not been given. Although you need not attend personally at the registrar's office to hand in your marriage notice, at least one of the parties must attend personally before the date of your marriage.