Simple way of Marriage Registration in Delhi under Hindu Marriage Act

Until a few days back, I considered registering my marriage to be a nightmare and used to think about an agent to get my marriage certificate. Now that I have obtained my marriage certificate, and if you are reading this post I am sure you will find it very simple and easy to obtain your marriage certificate from Delhi. I will explain step wise:

STEP 1 : Get address of your area's marriage registrar office, in general area where husband resides. For some areas you will have to book an online appointment for submitting your documents. You can check this link for setting up an online appointment : http://districts.delhigovt.nic.in/choosedistrict.asp
http://districts.delhigovt.nic.in/findsubdivision.asp is another link to find sub-registrar office for your area.

STEP2: You need to get following documents ready:

> Filled form with signatures.
> Another form for witness - 2 witnesses required (parents can be a witness), witnesses PAN no. and photostat of PAN card Witnesses Aadhar card or voter id or passport or ration card copy.
In the witness form, you need to paste your pic and your wife's passport size picture.
> Your own address proof (both husband and wife's address proof) : Also serve as age proof.
> Affidavit from a notary (content is on back side of witness form) - 2 copies of affidavit, one each to be signed by husband and wife. Cost is Rs 200.
> If you are a divorcee - Divorce order or if you are a widow/widower - death certificate of spouse.
> Aadhar card of Husband/Wife is must. I argued with clerk that SC of India has declared that Aadhar card is no longer a mandatory document but clerk said this is a mandatory field in software and is needed. So we immediatly rushed to Aadhar enrollment centre and got Aadhar acknowledgement receipt and used that as a proof.
> 200 Rs as fee.
> On a plain white paper - 1 ceremonial picture (self attested) and 2 copies of passport size pictures (glued) and self attested.
> Wedding card copy (where name, date and address details of marriage are given)
> If marriage was solemnized in a temple - a certificate by priest (but is not mandatory as we didn't attached that).

STEP 3:
With all these documents ready, you will submit these to the clerk in office on your appointment date. You can go alone for submission. If your area is not in online link, you can go to your area's marriage registration office (enquire this before as for us living in Rohini Sector-13, office was 15 kms away in Civil lines) between 10 am to 1 pm and submit the documents.
Upon receival of documents and fees, you will be given a date when both of you (couple) and witness must go to office again for signature. Then you can collect the marriage certificate.

* All documents must be self attested. Witnesses documents to be attested by them and your documents by yourself.
* Approximately it will take 1 month to get date of collecting certificate from the date when you submit documents.
* If you are in hurry, pay Rs 10K - Get a receipt and get your certificate under Tatkal scheme on same day when you submit documents - Convenient but comes with a price.
* If you want to bribe the clerk, he won't give you receipt but 99% chances are that he will get your certificate same day in Rs 6K.
* I only know about Hindu Marriage Act which covers Hindu, Jain, Sikhs, Buddhists in India.


Cheers and ask me questions if you want to. I will try to answer a few of them at least.