HSE marriage notification appointments at some services are booked up for months, meaning couples may have difficulty giving the notice required to marry this year
A record number of marriages is expected this year as couples forced to postpone their nuptials scramble to wed. Increased demand on State marriage registration services means some may be unable to marry this year, or to do so in their county of choice.
In the HSE West region, couples wanting to give the required notice to marry are waiting up to eight weeks to do so, a community health spokesperson for the area has said. The current waiting time for a notification appointment in Galway is eight weeks. In Mayo, the waiting time is six weeks.
The number of marriages more than halved during the pandemic, figures show. In 2020, there were just 9,523 weddings compared with 20,683 the previous year, according to the CSO. Provisional data for 2021 shows there were just 4,823 weddings in the first six months of that year, compared with an average of 10,340 in the first six months of 2019.
Bookings for marriage courses were up 30 per cent in January and February this year, reports Accord, the Catholic marriage preparation course provider. “It has been challenging to meet demand and our facilitators have doubled their delivery of programmes,” says Anne Coleman, a specialist in marriage education.
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