Planning to marry in France?
The french law requires the marriage interview ( also called pre wedding interview) to take place in the presence of an interpreter at the town hall.
Our agency provides the face to face interpreters for interviews and weddings, since 2011.
Based on our experience, we have drawn up a list of typical questions asked during the marriage interview and also a list of interview tips that can help you in most interviews.
Don’t worry, these questions are purely formal and you’ll be able to answer them easily.
First of all, in the marriage audition questionnaire, several questions will be asked about your spouse’s identity and family, to see if you know them well enough:
Other questions you will be asked about your meeting, your exchanges since the meeting, etc…
The town hall will ask you to hire an interpreter for the interview if the foreign spouse does not have a perfect command of French.
Our professional translators can accompany you to interviews and weddings in Paris, and also in any other city in France.
For marriage interview, the translator does not need to be sworn; the law states that a non-sworn translator (interpreter) is sufficient.
In terms of price, accompaniment to an interview by a professional interpreter costs from €250. This price is indicative and applies to the services of an English-French translator for a marriage interview in Paris and the Ile-de-France region.
Contact us to request a quote and to find out about our Packages for the services of a face to face translator (interpreter) who will accompany you at all the stages of your marriage in France :
Our interpreter will not only go through the interview with you, but will also give you invaluable advice and tips, as our official translators assisted hundreds of couples during their interviews, and we know the steps and pitfalls.
If you wish to hire a face to face interpreter for a wedding interview in Paris or the Ile-de-France region, we advise you to send us your request in advance, especially during the spring and summer, when the demand is especially high.
Above all, don’t worry. We’ve been accompanying mixed couples to marriage interviews in France since 2011, and we’ve never seen a marriage refused!
The procedure is fairly formal and the questionnaire for the interview is formal too.
Based on our experience, here are a few tips to ensure that your interview with the civil registrar goes off without a hitch:
Don’t worry, the registrar will really not try to fail you. If you know basic information about your spouse, don’t even have any doubts, the interview will definitely go well.
Immediately after the interview (and in some cases a few days later) you will be asked to choose a day for your civil wedding!
Don’t forget that for foreigners the time between validation of the interview and the wedding date may be longer, because in between you’ll have the obligatory publication of marriage banns.
If one of you lives abroad, you will also need to publish the banns at the French embassy or consulate in your country.
For the banns, the mairie handles all the details, so you don’t have to worry about them. It may just delay the process a little.
Our official interpreters in France have extensive experience in interpreting during marriage interviews.
If you need an interpreter for your marriage interview or civil wedding, our official translator will help you with face to face interpreting, advise you and give you all the tips we’ve learned from the hundreds of interviews that we’d helped to conduct since 2011.
To hire our interpreter means to ensure a stress-free and worry-free marriage interview in Paris or other cities of France !
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Marina Yulis
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