Notice of Intended Marriage

Enter your details once. We build your official NoIM form (the Commonwealth form under section 42 of the Marriage Act 1961) ready to print and sign, plus a data file Simple Ceremonies uses to load your details into your ceremony portal. You don't have to finish in one go — sign in with your email and you can come back to it on any device.

Before you start. It is a criminal offence to give a Notice to an authorised celebrant, or to sign it, knowing it contains a false statement or an error (section 104, Marriage Act 1961). Your completed, signed Notice must reach your celebrant at least one month, and not more than 18 months, before your ceremony. If you cannot obtain a piece of information after reasonable enquiry, write unknown in that box — a statutory declaration explaining why is then needed for everything except items 11–16 (the parents' details).

Start with your email

Your email address is your account and your lodgement reference — there's no password. We'll send you a 6-digit code to confirm it's you.

This is what lets you stop partway and come back on any device, and it's how we find your Notice once you've lodged it.

Person 1 — your details

Items 1 to 9 of the Notice. Use your full legal names exactly as they appear on your birth certificate or passport — not a shortened or married name.

📷 Scan your ID to fill this in

Photograph or upload your passport, birth certificate, driver licence or proof-of-age card and we'll read the names, date and place of birth, and document number straight off it. Check every field afterwards — a scan is a head start, not the final word.

1. Description of parties
It is entirely up to you how you describe yourself on the Notice.
2–5. Name, gender and occupation
Family, surname or last name. Optional — leave it blank if you don’t have one.
Middle names, exactly as they appear on your birth certificate or passport. Leave blank if you have none.
What we'll call you. Not printed on the Notice.
Not printed on the Notice.
6. Usual place of residence
7. Conjugal status
Whether you have ever been legally married before — married relationships only, not de facto ones. If your status is “Divorce Pending”, the divorce must take effect before the marriage can be solemnised.
8–9. Birthplace and date of birth
Contact details

Not printed on the Notice — used so we can reach you about your ceremony.