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If I am not mistaken it has to be where the house book is from. I think we ran into this when I was getting married.

Traditionally, the wedding rituals are held at the bride's home or the home of the head of her family where the ancestor's altar is located.  The wedding dinner can be at any place.

I haven't heard that for legal purpose, it has to be held where the family is registered.  It doesn't make sense because people do live and work away from their hometown.

I thought ciambella would have something on this. I just am not sure. I know there was a time where many wanted to marry in DaLat. I imagine the justice department can tell you. It might be that just the marriage certificate must be form her hometown. Good luck on all accounts.

People chose Da Lat for their weddings to take advantage of the landscape.  Many Vietnamese brides dream of having her wedding photos taken at the Valley of Love in Da Lat, the same way American brides dream of their "destination weddings".  Many decades ago, I got married in San Francisco even though we lived 500 miles away.  My daughter had her wedding held in St. Maarten even though she and her husband lived in California.

People do a lot of strange things when it comes to wedding.

Thank you guys. We work and live in Cambodia near the Ha Tien border. It would make sense for us to get married in Ha Tien (sign the documents) and celebrate in Cambodia where our families and friends live. We might go to Ha Tien tomorrow and enquire.

I probably did not make myself very clear. As I recall the story on Dalat they were actually registering.  to marry in Dalat. Yes, it is a popular place for wedding photos etc. I wish I were smarter on this, but it had been sometime since I crossed this bridge. It makes sense that the license would have to come from the house book city though. You can not buy a motorbike outside your house book city. How can you get hooked. Lets us know what you find out please.

Thanks Diazo. I ll let you know.

When we got married (2014) we had to do it in Da Lat, as that is where my wifes birth was registered and where her family book is registered. However, let me tell you this: The official marriage ceremony in Vietnam is about as interesting as opening a bank account - and just as complex.

So what many Vietnamese who marry foreigners do, is to go to wherever they officially hail from and do the document signing there.......

          Official at our marriage ceremony - "I see that you have  been married before,                               
            but are now marrying again, why is that?"
           Me - "I like wedding cake"

...........The happy couple then have the wedding party at the city, town or village of their choice.

Yes, that is what I recalled EOD. Just getting to old the brain cells do not work so well.

Diazo wrote:

Yes, that is what I recalled EOD. Just getting to old the brain cells do not work so well.

Start drinking heavily! It doesn't help your memory, but you just dont give a damn.

Good grief.  I'm glad I was married in the States, else I wouldn't know where to go since my birthplace was outside of Ha Noi but my family lived in Saigon. 

Not that the rule was the same back then.  In fact, there wasn't any such rule at all.

Ciambellawho ate you trying to kid that any rule here could last that long. Just teasing you. But I suspect the rules were quite different back in the Big C days. I hear tell though that they are planning on doing away with house books and giving everyone a new type of countrywide ID. So you will be able to do anything anywhere. Economically it sure would be good for the cities outside the large cities. I hated everyone I needed a new motorbike to have to go to Sai Gon the ride it home.

Oh, this was way before the Big C.  I was born before the country was divided, and grew up in Saigon during dinosaur time when not one newspaper or magazine was owned by the government and freddom of speech was taken for granted.

All good things must come to an end, and they did.

Oh really. I guess I better study some Vietname history. I must admit my ignorance.  Well at any rate, these days rules are no longer printed because the ink can not dry before they change them. But in fairness to them it is a young and evolving country. Were you here
Before they invented concrete. Just teasing you.aleays love to here from you.

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not one newspaper or magazine was owned by the government and freedom of speech was taken for granted.
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During the war in the south all publications were heavily censored and I lost count of the number of completely blacked out newspaper articles which didn't conform with government requirements.

Apart from paperwork nothing needs to be done in hometown or address of the red book

Ciambella wrote:

I haven't heard that for legal purpose, it has to be held where the family is registered.  It doesn't make sense because people do live and work away from their hometown.

The fact that you had not heard of this may be a reflection that it is not a traditional thing but post-1975 and based on Party policy.  Again the red book is a way of controlling people.  I was married in 2012 and the policy was definitely in place then.  A fellow teacher of mine had to go all the way from HCMC to Hanoi to marry.  Since then the policy has been solidified by moving the legal marriage and the vital records from the Dept of Justice to the Party UBND. 

It may not seem to make sense at first but it does if you see it as part of an overall scheme to control people's lives.   

Of course you can have the party anywhere you want.

ralphnhatrang wrote:

During the war in the south all publications were heavily censored and I lost count of the number of completely blacked out newspaper articles which didn't conform with government requirements.

The blackened spots on newspapers disappeared after the Diem's regime fell in 1963.

Do the legal stuff in her hometown, have the party where ever you want, no law against that.

Thank you. We'll do just that. Thanks again

And..... Congratulations and Best Wishes!

#19 - Not so, their were still lots of censored articles in Saigon newspapers up during my time in southern VN from Oct 1970 until I left in Feb 1972.

Thank you We've been together for 5 years now. The next step will be adoption of her children, and maybe moving to Vietnam, maybe ....