Monday, June 04, 2007

[wedded bliss] stymied at the 11th hour

More than interested in this because a similar thing happened to us:

A Gloucestershire couple who spent £4000 on a Caribbean wedding are not legally married because of a spelling mistake. Mike Goodhall and Heidi Loader have spent six months trying to correct the misspelling by a clerk.

They returned the marriage certificate asking for it to be amended, but the travel agents had lost it and their booking records.

Our particular situation was in Thailand and we chose that to avoid local difficulties at home. Everything was fine except for one particular document. We were at Pattaya at the time and needed to take a taxi to Bangkok, [a Mercedes], just to get the certificate.

Nothing wrong with Bangkok - some good shopping there but we'd had other plans and had just come from Bangkok anyway. Still, it was a nice ride in the Merc.

Inflicted on you by on

2 comments:

  1. CrushedMonday 4 June 2007 at 17:58:00 GMT+1

    Well, to some people this might seem like a message from above...

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  2. Welshcakes LimoncelloMonday 4 June 2007 at 18:19:00 GMT+1

    When I went to register my mother's death I took her marriage certificate on which her maiden name Stevens had been spelt with a ph then corrected. "Oh, they shouldn't have done that!" exclaimed the registrar. There I was in distress and shock and being made to feel I should do something about what had happened in the 1930s! The registration went ahead after she had conferred with a colleague but it was farcical and at any other time I'd have laughed.

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