Matrimony Licences by Date Only

  • You must submit your union licence application online before booking an date. The name on the awarding must be the same as the name on the appointment booking. Once you have submitted your application online you will be given an application number. This number is required when booking your appointment. Before submitting your application:
    • Review the identification requirements.
    • Review guidelines on re-marrying afterwards a divorce, if applicable.

Submit Your Marriage Licence Awarding

  • All union licences volition be issued from Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. West.
    • Walk-ins will non exist accustomed.
    • The proper name on the appointment must friction match one of the names on the marriage licence application. You will be required to enter your matrimony licence application number. Only book one appointment per couple. Boosted bookings will exist cancelled.
  • This appointment is to obtain your marriage licence only. You must arrange for a carve up marriage ceremony to go married.
  • If you cannot detect an date prior to your intended nuptials date delight electronic mail marriage@toronto.ca for additional aid.

Book an Appointment Online

Identification Requirements

Each person applying for the marriage licence must provide 2 pieces of acceptable government issued identification (ID) from the list below:

  • Identification must exist valid and original (we will not accept photocopies, scanned images or pictures on electronic devices).
  • Identification must provide your legal name and date of birth.
  • Your first and last names must match on the two pieces of ID that are presenting.
  • To have your middle name(s) included on your marriage licence it must also appear on both pieces of ID.
  • ID on the list can be from whatsoever country, as long equally it is government issued.
  • If the ID is non in English, a written translation from a certified translator is required.
  • Wellness cards and Southward.I.N. cards will not exist accepted.
  • Expired identification will not exist accustomed.

Acceptable identification

  • Birth Certificate
  • Passport
  • Driver's Licence
  • Ontario Photo Bill of fare (Regal photo ID card)
  • Certificate of Canadian Citizenship (Canadian Citizenship Card)
  • Canadian Authorities Refugee Travel Document
  • Conditional Release Identification Carte du jour
  • United States Dark-green Menu
  • Native Status Card
  • Tape of Immigration Landing
  • Confirmation of Permanent Residency
  • Permanent Residency Card
  • Citizenship Card
  • Identity Carte du jour
  • Nexus Card
  • Firearms Acquisition Certificate (FAC)
  • Possession & Acquisition Licence (PAL)

What to Bring to Your Appointment

Bring ALL of the following to your appointment:

  1. Appointment Permit (print this when y'all book online).
  2. Completed application dated with original signatures (applications with scanned, photocopied or electronic signatures will not be accepted).
  3. 2 pieces of original and valid government issued ID for each person applying from the list of acceptable ID (see Identification Requirements, expired identification will non be accepted).
  4. Divorce documentation, if applicable.

Interpreter

  • If you cannot read or sympathise English, you must bring someone who can interpret for you.
  • This person must present their ain identification.

What to Look at Your Appointment

As part of the City'due south COVID-nineteen response please read before coming to your appointment.

  • Masks are mandatory to enter the building.
  • Just 1 person may nourish the engagement (unless yous need assistance).
  • If you or your partner are sick (fever, coughing, difficulty breathing, muscle aches), have travelled outside of Canada or come into contact with a person with COVID-19 do not attend your appointment. Contact us at wedlock@toronto.ca to reschedule.
  • Protect yourself and others by practising concrete distancing. Signs and floor markings will guide y'all.

As of Baronial 16, 2021 all appointments will be located at Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. West. Appointments scheduled for N York Borough Centre will be moved to Toronto City Hall every bit of August 16, 2021 (in that location will be no modify to the appointment or fourth dimension of the appointment).

  • It volition take approximately 15 minutes to procedure your application and upshot the licence.
  • Make it at your scheduled appointment fourth dimension.
    • If you are belatedly or come without the required documentation, your appointment may have to be rescheduled.

Getting there

Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. West. (City Hall Map)

  • Paid parking is available nether Toronto Urban center Hall, accessible from Queen St. West, Bay St South and Armoury/Chestnut Streets.
  • Subway stops at Queen, Dundas and Osgoode.
  • 501 Queen St. streetcar.

North York Borough Centre, 5100 Yonge St. (Northward York Map, only until August thirteen, 2021)

  • Archway off of North York Blvd
  • Paid parking is available on Yonge St. and Beecroft Ave (straight behind the North York Civic Centre).
  • Subway stops at N York Center or Sheppard/Yonge.

Fee

  • The cost of a marriage licence is $160 (HST does not utilise).
  • We have debit and credit card ONLY. If yous do non have a credit or debit card please contact marriage@toronto.ca.
  • The marriage licence fee is non-refundable.

Remarrying After a Divorce Granted in Canada

Divorced in Canada

You must submit official proof of the divorce when you apply for a marriage licence. This can exist the original or a court-certified copy of a:

  • Certificate of divorce
  • Final prescript

All documents will be returned. A certified copy of either of the above divorce documents may be obtained from the court office that granted the divorce.

A divorce certificate for a divorce granted in Toronto can exist obtained at the Superior Court of Justice, 361 University Avenue. For business organization hours call 416-326-4230.

If you lot do non know where your divorce was granted you can contact the Fundamental Registry of Divorce Proceedings or 1-613-957-4519.

Remarrying After a Divorce Granted Outside of Canada

Divorced Outside of Canada (Foreign Divorce)

If you were divorced outside of Canada, you will demand to obtain a Strange Divorce Authorization from the Province of Ontario, Part of the Registrar General.

ServiceOntario
Marriage Office
PO Box 4600
189 Reddish River Road
Thunder BayON  P7B 6L8

Y'all will need to send the post-obit to the address above:

  • Completed and signed wedlock licence awarding
  • Statement of sole responsibility
  • Legal opinion alphabetic character: from an Ontario lawyer
  • Original or court-certified re-create of the divorce decree or annulment in English or French. If the document is in another language, y'all will need to include a translated re-create and an affirmation sworn by a certified translator.

For more than information or forms including a sample legal opinion letter of the alphabet please visit the  ServiceOntario website.

Once you have received your Foreign Divorce Authorization from the Office of the Registrar General you lot can make an appointment for a matrimony licence.

If y'all arrive for your appointment without a Foreign Divorce Authorization your union licence cannot be issued.

For more information, contact the Office of the Registrar General Wedlock Office at i-800-461-2156 (cost-costless) or visit Service Ontario.

General Data Nigh Marriage Licences

  • A union licence is required to get married in Ontario (or the publication of banns from a church)
  • Book date if you plan ally in the adjacent xc days
  • The licence is valid for apply in Ontario only and can exist used anywhere in the province
  • Anyone over the age of 16 years old can get married in Ontario. If you are under 18 years of age you lot will need consent from your parents or legal guardians. A parental consent form must be completed. Forms are available in our office. Your parents or legal guardians must as well be present at the time you submit your marriage licence application.
  • Everyone is welcome to utilize for a spousal relationship licence and get married in Ontario, whether you live here permanently or temporarily. There are no gender, residency, citizenship or medical requirements when applying for a wedlock licence. The requirements are the same for everyone.

What to Do If You Have an Expired Spousal relationship Licence

The Province of Ontario has granted Imperial Assent to legislation allowing for the extension of some marriage licences impacted by the iii dissimilar States of Emergency.

Licence Upshot Appointment Extended Union Licence Valid Until
Dec 1, 2019 to July 24, 2020 Aye July 24, 2022
July 25, 2020 to September xxx, 2020 No 3 months after the date of result
October 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020 Yes February 10, 2023
January one, 2021 to June 4, 2021 Yes June four, 2023

For more information visit Service Ontario or call 416-325-8305 or one-800-267-8097.

What to Do If You lot Cannot Find an Appointment in Time for Your Nuptials

Demand for appointments is loftier and spots fill quickly.  If you cannot notice an appointment to obtain your licence in time for your wedding please contact us at spousal relationship@toronto.ca.