Category Archives: Wedding

Wedding

How to divorce in Tbilisi 2024

Did you get married in Tbilisi and now the marriage does not work?

Are you facing challenges in your marriage that seem insurmountable? Sometimes, despite our best wishes for everlasting love, life takes its own course. If you’re considering divorce, here is some general information that might assist you.



Before proceeding with divorce, it’s essential to consider seeking legal counsel in your country for a Divorce Settlement Agreement. This agreement addresses various aspects such as roles, property division, affidavits, childcare, and any other critical issues that require mutual agreement before initiating the divorce process.

In Georgia, there are two primary options to obtain a divorce certificate:

Option A: Divorce Procedure in Georgia

This involves both parties (Groom and Bride) appearing before local authorities in Georgia to sign the divorce application.  This method requires a physical presence in Georgia.

Following the application, the divorce certificate, per Georgian law, is issued within 6 working days. Further steps involve international validation through official translation, apostille, or legalization by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which typically takes an additional 2-4 working days.

If you wish to receive a quote for this full procedure, kindly complete the form below. You have the option to stay in Tbilisi for a minimum of 10 working days or have the divorce certificate delivered to your home via express courier, requiring only a 1-day stay in Tbilisi.

Option B: Power of Attorney Procedure
Alternatively, a “power of attorney” approach allows the divorce process to proceed without the need for both parties to be physically present in Georgia. This method helps save on travel expenses, including flights, accommodations, PCR tests, etc.
To initiate this process, both parties need to provide a power of attorney in English, each with an apostille valid for Georgia. This document grants full authority to act on behalf of both parties for legal requirements, document requests, and divorce proceedings.

Once we receive the power of attorney documents with the necessary seals, we’ll handle the process per Georgian law, including translation and notarization. After 6 working days, the divorce certificate is issued, followed by the necessary international paperwork.

Certificate of divorce in english with the proper seal will be released in some working days.Than you will get all paperwork to your address by express courier .

Choosing to come together to Georgia can expedite and simplify the process. You can stay for 1-2 days, and the documents can be delivered to your home by DHL. To receive a quote for this approach, please fill out the form below.

 

Witch option are interested for?

Wedding

The best Basic way to get married in Tbilisi

Leave a comment

You cannot believe all the issues could happen during a wedding procedure abroad. The Wedding in Tbilisi is very sensible act related bureaucracy and it should be kept with all the attention. It does not mean to spread money if you are not interested in a ceremony. As I already wrote about “Simple” wedding in Tbilisi, hold in the public hall, I advise to follow a “Basic” safe step for your date, even if you wish just “sign and go” marriage path.

What is mentioned in Tbilisi as “Basic” wedding is the best way to get a hassle free service, stress free and with high save of money, despect to the fact the word “Simple” could make you think.



What is the difference between Simple and Basic wedding in Tbilisi?

The Basic Wedding I usually offer to my guest is including the professional assistance, the documents ready in advance, a confirmed time to apply for wedding, a private wedding room to execute the civil rite, the civil rite (or just the sign if you prefer) hassle-free procedure after wedding to release the international documents and of course my photography service that you will treasure for years to come.



All this procedure, so called Basic, just cost few money more. A very ridiculous money difference against a high lost of time, unsafe queue in public hall and no warranty in the right document release.

Comparing the procedure for the Simple service, in the Basic package you will have an official attendant of the Ministry of Interior following your application, inserting your data, checking careful your request and everything while you are comfortable waiting sitting down in a clean, safe, private lounge.

In the Simple service, you will queue up behind other people till your number will come. You will meet just an operator in a public office that have many different bureaucracy procedure to follow before and after you. In the Basic service your attendant is just specialist for the wedding and knows in a deep way what to do related weddings, expecially for foreigners applications.



In the Simple service, after application you have to go away and to waite for sms to confirm your application is valid. The sms can come anytime during the day and sometimes do not come or come the day after (including issues in your telephone, sim card or whatever). In the Basic service you will have a fixed time after application for your civil rite, even straight after application if you do not wish any ceremony you can get married.

In the Simple service your civil rite does not exist, you just sign in while people is queuing up to your desk. In the basic service you can have a private lounge for the civil rite. That is nice even you wish just to sign or to have a romantic short ceremony and a couple of photos together. Absolutely great if you have some guests to you as it gives elegance without to loose money.



Actually, I provide for basic package to everybody asking my help or my photography service in Tbilisi. This pandemia time has been a proof how much the privacy, safety and cleanness are important to manage a perfect stress free, smooth, easy procedure for your wedding in Tbilisi.

Ask for a Basic service, email me.

Do not let your day without a photography service. Go with phototbilisi.com

 

Information, Wedding

Simplest and cheapest way to get married in Tbilisi

You do not want formalities and really you just need to get married and to get the marriage certificate. You will think about parties when you will be back home or when your life situation will give you the right moment to organize that. There are a lot of people in the world, expats, digital nomad, foreigners in other countries that just need to tie the knot out any traditional scheme.

So, you did your search and you find in Tbilisi and in the Georgia country the option suitable for you. What everybody names “simple” package, it is just a sign in a paper in a public hall, usually the city Hall. This procedure usually includes the assistance to the documents, translation, notary, witnesses and everything related to set up this document. No frills at all.



Do you think you are saving money?

In Tbilisi the difference in money between a simple path in a public crowdy place and one clean, nice wedding lounge is very short. What nobody will explain you clear is the lost in time you will spend probably losing all the day from the moment you get in the public place administration till the moment you will be out with your certificate of marriage.

What can be exactly?

Few times everything went smooth and I can say in less time than I expected but the most of time these are the common issues:



– You have to understand you are giving your application of marriage (completely in Georgian) to an operator that does hundred different documents and operations during the day. He/she is not always ready to insert properly your name and surname and all your private data, from your foreign language to Georgian language. Any letter will be translated back in an official document for your country and if there is only one letter mistake, your country can refuse the document in the future. Furthermore, many operators, even if you pass the Georgian boarder regularly, can ask you for your visa translation. It means you must go out to the public hall, to find a translator and notary, to do the document and to be back to the public hall. Of course, you will need to do a new queue, you will meet a new operator and restart to insert your data in the Georgian system.



When this operation is over, the operator will say to you to go away and to wait for a sms to come back with your witnesses later on. There is not a fixed time, can pass some hours and even all day. In that moment you will understand you did not save money. Even worst if you decided to go with the help of one citizen that of course will not have nothing in charge if your documents have problems or any issues could occur.

If you wish to understand the difference and how much you save in stress and time, continue reading at this point about a Basic Service with a private wedding lounge.

By the way, if you are easy going person and you do not care about warning and you wish this simple way to get married, here you find a link for the service for “Simply” Wedding in Tbilisi.



 

 

Information, Wedding

My wedding in Tbilisi Apostille or Legalization seals?

1 Comment

One of the most frequest question is what does mean Apostille or Legalization in your certificate of marriage. The difference is very important to be learn as it can make a big issue to register the marriage later in your country or in your embassy or in a third part country where you are expat and temporary or permanent residents.

Sometimes people does not get attention at all to this matter and frequently they arrived in Tbilisi without to get the proper informations.



The wedding in Tbilisi could be very smooth and fast but it will be not so easy, smooth and fast to register the wedding if you get wrong in this matter.

All countries related l’Hague convention are belong Apostille that practically by-pass your embassy and make quite fast to approch for the registration of your wedding hold abroad. if your country is not belong l’hague convention list (e.g. Lebanon, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, South Africa), you must require a certificate of marriage with legalization.

The first legalization seals are from the country issuing the certificate. So the certificate of marriage will have the Legalization seals by Georgian law. On contrary the Apostille, the certificate with Legalization  is not enough for a lot of countries and many Nations requires their seals stamped as well in that document. It means after the release of the official certificate of marriage in Georgia with the Legalization seals, you will need to get the stamp of the related embassy as well.

There are some exception like Canada and few other country and we try constantly to be updated but our advice is to check directly with your embassy or municipality what to get to register your marriage abroad.

Did you find usefull this article? Please support us with a small donation.

Due to the covid-19, the wedding services are down since one year. If you find out these infos usefull to you please support us with a small donation by PAYPAL just clicking the link below:

You can set any ammount you wish to donate and you will get a nice gift. Thank you very much to support us!

 

Restaurant, Wedding

Your wedding restaurant in Tbilisi

A lot of restaurants in Tbilisi could help to make your day unforgettable.

Being no resident in Tbilisi and coming alone with your partner for the wedding or maybe with just a small group of relatives and friends, you start browsing tons of web pages, reading thousand feeback in google maps or tripadvisor or getting in insane crowd forum. Time pass, stress comes and really for what?

Let me advice belong the day you are  thinking or better do not think, I will advice you correctly as I will meet you, i will understand your wishes.

Patrick and Natalia exactely did that. In love and harmony arrived in Tbilisi, we spoke  first of all of the details of their wedding in Tbilisi, the photography service itinerary and I propose to them to end their day in Qalaqi restaurant.

Elegant and fashionable place, delicious food, 3 kind of level design and athmosphere to choose your table belong the number of people.



 

We use to provide a list of restaurant we try and test before your arrival. Do not exitate to book your photography service and wedding management with us.

Information, Travel, Wedding

How to get married in Sighnaghi Georgia

How to get Married in Sighnaghi Georgia !
Have you read the guideline “how to get married in Tbilisi”? If yes, go on , if not, take a look at this page.
I just ask you the pleasure to not copy and paste the following news without to report the source,  tbilisilovesyou.com , in your blog, email, profile , facebook , others social networks. It helps to enhance my job and to promote it. For any questions please email me .


Believing that you have a general idea as you red ” how to get married in Tbilisi ” , in Georgia there is a tiny little village but so, so, romantic called Sighnaghi .
As in all fairy tales, lies on the slopes of a mountain to the height of 790 meters in the ancient region of Khakheti famous for its wines that are truly exceptional in Georgia as well as from a centuries-old history and thousands of legends. The village is overlooking the valley of Alazani with a breathtaking view.
To get there it takes about two hours by road from the center of Tbilisi or an hour and a half from the airport.
Documents to be submitted are the same as for Tbilisi , until the ceremony , the only issue is the fact that you have to plan a whole day in Tbilisi for the translation of the wedding certificate in english or another languare available and the related apostille to access at the legal transcription of your marriage in your country.

Than there are 2 situations:
– You’re about to get married with Georgian citizen and stay in Tbilisi?
No problem, you have plenty of time to go ahead and submit the transcript request to your Embassy in Tbilisi .
– You are coming from different contries, both with non- Georgian passport ?
You should plan after your stay at Sighnaghi one or two days in Tbilisi for all the paperworks , which are carried out from Monday to Friday.
Problems? No one, if you ask for our help ….


Even for the marriage in Sighnaghi you can ask me my  “no issues easy wedding package” and you have to think only to enjoy your time.
Therefore, this is an example of wedding program in Sighnaghi : Arrival on Friday (usually early in the morning) , wedding on Friday or Saturday , relax in Sighnaghi on Sunday , Monday transfer to Tbilisi in the early morning to present the documentation of marriage at the opening. All paperworks will be ready (usually) from 1 to 3 working days belong your both countries needs.
Anyway you can have the possibility to visit Tbilisi and as soon as  the documents are ready you receive an sms from us and we will go to pick them up or yoou can even delegate us for that .
Surely more days you have more you will enjoy Georgia!
In this way, over a period of 4-5 days everything will be done!
Of course even in the Sighnaghi wedding program I can organize the photo service!
All this can be done easily with my help , please email me
Waiting for you,
Greetings ,
Alex
facebook
Twitter
PHOTOTBILISI BY ALEX WED , Tbilisi, (by appointment only)  – www.phototbilisi.com
Information, Travel, Wedding

How to get married in Tbilisi Georgia

85 Comments

Best wishes! If you’re on this webpage, it’s true—love has no borders!

I’m thrilled for you because I got married in Tbilisi too! I’m a professional photographer and wedding planner, and I’ve been living in Georgia for 10 years. My wife, after years of a diplomatic career, now handles the marriage organization. We speak English, Italian, Georgian, Russian, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese fluently.

Which better help and wedding  planner can you find in Tbilisi?

We can organize your marriage in Georgia, internationally recognized, in few working days!

In just a minimum stay of a few working days, you’ll get married and leave Tbilisi with your wedding paperwork. If needed, we can also send the paperwork to your home by express courier, ensuring no one leaves without their much-dreamed-of marriage certificate!

I recommend reading the entire post to get all the general information, but if you’re only looking for this month’s special offer…

Click here



Have you decided on your wedding date?
Would you prefer a civil ceremony, a religious rite, or perhaps both?
Have you been married before?
Did you check if you need a visa to enter Georgia? Please make sure you have all the necessary information, as I can handle your wedding management or photography services, but visa issues are beyond my control.

Does the lady wish to take her husband’s surname? No problem—she can do so easily in Tbilisi!
If neither of you is a Georgian citizen, expatriate, or resident, have you checked if your country or embassy requires the paperwork to have apostille or legalization seals for later marriage registration? You can find information about Apostille and Legalization seals at this link.

Are you expatriates in a third country (e.g., UAE, Qatar, RSA, Bahrain) and wish to register the marriage there?
These are the key questions you should consider to optimize your time when you email us.

In any case, getting married to a Georgian citizen is relatively simple. However, as with any legal matter, there are some bureaucratic procedures to legalize your marriage status in Georgia and in your home country.



If neither of you are Georgian citizens, our assistance can be invaluable in avoiding mistakes in translations and procedures before, during, and after the wedding. We help save time, prevent issues, and ensure everything is stress-free.

If you want to get married without spending too much time in Tbilisi, a civil ceremony is likely the best option for you. The religious rite of the Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Georgian Church requires baptism, which may not be something you’re considering, especially if neither of you are Georgian. However, nothing is impossible, and we can assist with that too if you wish.

Georgians often perform both rituals on the same day to avoid any legal misunderstandings between church and civil law. On this page, we discuss what’s needed for a civil ceremony.

It’s important to know that Georgia imposes no restrictions on people of different religions or nationalities getting married. You can apply for marriage in Tbilisi regardless of your faith.

Is there any offer or wedding package could we avail?
Our “Easy Wedding Package” is perfect for those who don’t want to worry about any details. All you need to do is arrive in Tbilisi, and everything will be ready for you. Check out our latest wedding offer by clicking here.

We will handle all the official documents needed to apply for your wedding, guide you through the civil rite, and take care of the paperwork required to register your marriage in your home country afterward. In just 3-4 working days, you can enjoy a wonderful time, including tours to explore the beauty of Tbilisi and surrounding areas such as Mtskheta, Jvari, Uplistsikhe, Kazbegi, David Gareja, Sighnaghi, and Alaverdi.

Only have a 2-day stay? No problem—we’ll send your official paperwork via express mail courier (DHL, FedEx, UPS, or other).

Tbilisi will be the nest of your love.

A lot of extras as photography service, limousine, guided tours, guest assistance, bouquet, wedding dress rental, make up  can be provided at your request.
You have just to  Email me!
If you are interested for full package with awesome photography service, have a look to phototbilisi.com
If you are interested only for a professional photography service, please have a look to phototbilisi.com
If you wish to check the last offer, please just click here.

Frequent asked questions: 

” Marriage for foreigners in Tbilisi (different Nationalities) will be a problem to be registered? “
Not at all.  You will leave Tbilisi with your proper civil wedding paperwork one per each country nationality.
” What about marriage for No Georgian resident citizen? ” 
My website name is “Tbilisi Loves You” and I believe Georgia wants to be the kingdom of Love for everybody…. Yes you can, everybody welcome, you must have your passport (with visa if requested to get in Georgia), 2 witness and certainly you cannot avoid my help, expecially if you wish to be back in your country in few days with all proper documents. Usually I use to book in advance all the services and when you will come in few days everything will be set up….

” Any infos about the city of Love Sighnaghi or other cities or location? ” 
Being foreigners, having short time, wishing to save time and money I advice to set the civil rite in Tbilisi than to go in Sighnaghi as honemooner trip or to get for Sighnaghi just a photography day trip. By the way, sure, you can get married even in the beautiful smalltown of Sighnaghi, have a look to this page
Than you can choose Batumi but it is far away from the capital and we do not use to provide for services during winter season over there.
” What’s up if for any problem the wedding paperwork will be not done before I will leave Tbilisi?” 
In this extremely rare situation, we will send you the documents by UPS, DHL, TNT express mail courier in your country, so no problem at all.
” How I can save money having a short time to stay in Tbilisi?”
The service of dhl helps to save money in stayng, accomodation and related expences . You can have just 2 days stayng in Tbilisi, getting the basic cheap procedure and you will get your document by dhl at home in 1 week time. That is why it is very important to have a look to the flights shedules maybe you could book.
” Can you provide everything, I mean a full wedding planner program?”
Yes We can, expecially if you have a short stayng, bouquet, rings, wedding dress (you can even only rent it), make up, coiffeur, restaurants and simple or exclusive venues and of course photo service will be not a issue for you if you apply in advance. We are specialized in small groups of guest management but if you apply on time, no matter to manage any event.


” What about relatives and friends coming in Tbilisi for our wedding? ” 
We can check your hotel or appartment reservation, organize tours, set up the wedding tables names, anything you wish…
“And if I am divorced and I wish to get married again?” 
Yes you can. It is a  longer procedure and it depends from the country released your divorce certificate or decree of divorce but you can…check this post … or write me! 
” We are already married but we wish just to renew the vows “
We can choose nice outdoor location and add an amazing photography service to make unforgettable that day
“We are coming for the need to get the document without frills”
Even I do not advice, you can choose the “Simply” package and you can read infos at this link.
*Update07th April 2022 : due to the actual situation, some restrictions are still ongoing in the country. Check stopcov.ge as official source ”
Waiting for you,
Regards
Alex
Like my facebook page
There is not wedding without an unforgettable professional service. 25 years experience in capturing emotions
PHOTOTBILISI BY ALEX WED , Tbilisi,Vake, (by appointment only) – www.phototbilisi.com