Civil wedding is a legal wedding. Symbolic wedding lacks the legal power, and as such it doesn’t
require any documentation. Nonetheless the symbolic wedding may contain all elements of civil
wedding: vows, exchanging of rings, religious elements and songs, etc. Symbolic wedding can be
organized in such a way that guests don’t even notice the difference between symbolic and civil
wedding. Symbolic wedding can even contain an actor instead of a registrar.
Newlyweds usually opt for a symbolic wedding if they are already legally married, but haven’t
held a wedding ceremony or if they simply prefer not to bother with the foreign documentation.
There are many advantages of symbolic wedding. You can read more about those advantages on our
blog Symbolic Wedding – no
Documents, no Hassle.