Municipality of Maastricht: applying to get married

You must register your marriage with the municipality, providing all your own, your partner's and your witnesses' personal details. The submission deadline is 2 weeks before the wedding date, but make sure to register ahead of time to avoid disappointment.

If you need to submit foreign documents, you must notify your intentions earlier than 2 weeks in advance. The usual period of 2 weeks is then too short to arrange everything.

Give notice of an intended marriage

You can give notice of an intended marriage online after reserving a date in the wedding calendar. Please send an email to huwelijk@maastricht.nl or dial +31 (0)43 350 4040 to do so.

If you both live outside the Netherlands, you will have to report your marriage in the municipality of Den Haag (The Hague). You can find more information on how to register a marriage for Dutch citizens living outside the Netherlands at the netherlandsworldwide.nl website.

More information

You must make a number of choices and inform the municipality when giving notice of a marriage. This includes choosing the type of ceremony and the venue. The costs depend on your wishes and the possibilities in the municipality of Maastricht.

Ceremony

The ceremony is the official part of your marriage. You have the following options:

getting married free of charge;
eenvoudige (standard) ceremony;
uitgebreide (enhanced) ceremony Monday - Friday
uitgebreide ceremony 24/7

You can choose who performs your ceremony if you opt for an enhanced ceremony. The following options are available:

A municipal trouwambtenaar (wedding officiant). The wedding officiant will contact you a few weeks before the wedding date to introduce themselves and find out more about you and your future spouse. Please inform the municipality if you prefer a particular wedding officiant.
A friend or family member. Please contact the municipality If you would like a friend or family member to be your own wedding officiant.

Wedding venue

You can get married in various places. You can choose from:

One of the municipality's wedding venues;
A wedding venue of your own choice. Please inform the municipality about your venue by dialling +31 (0)43 350 4040 or by sending an email to huwelijk@maastricht.nl. You may have to pay for a wedding venue of your own choice.

You pay a fee for this service. For more information, contact the municipality.

Learn more about wedding packages in Maastricht