A warm welcome to the forum!

I'm also from Cavite and just recently got married (Oct 2011) with my British man. So here's what we did.

He applied for CNI in the UK and he got it after 22 days. He arrived in Philippines early October then the next day we went to the British embassy (you need to book appointment by e-mail). We got his exchanged local CNI after an hour so its the same day process.

you can check out their website to have better view of the process:

http://ukinthephilippines.fco.gov.uk...ply-for-a-cni/

After our appointment at the British embassy we went straight to my church ( INC Temple in QC) to get his local CNI checked but on your situation you won't need to do this as your having your wedding ceremony at civil service hall. We then went to my Local Registry office at City hall to apply for marriage license. So we finished it all in 1 day

here is the checklist of documents we submitted(original & 1 photo copy)

Me:

Birth Certificate
Cenomar from NSO
1 passport size or 2x2 photo
Barangay clearance
Cedula
Parental consent as I was 22 when we applied for marriage license.
My parents ID


My husband:

Birth Certificate
Passport
Local CNI (Certificate of No Impediment)
1 passport size or 2x2 photo

We submitted pre-marriage counselling & family planning certificate too. (my husband laughed at this he said he's old enough to know this things but its mandatory to get marriage license so he had no choice)

They posted our marriage license application for 10 days. At the 10th day they asked us to go back and collect our marriage license.

All in all the whole process only took 13 days for us. We had all documents ready before starting the whole process so its a plus We had church wedding and all went well.

He was only here for 3 weeks and I'm so glad we got everything done in 3 weeks. We got married late Oct and still had 3 days honeymoon in Tagaytay . I can't wait to be with him again its hard for a newly wed couple to be apart from each other But I'm about to lodge my spouse visa application at the end of January so hope everything will be ok.

I also got our marriage certificate(from NSO) in 2 weeks(thru advance endorsement) and my new passport(with his name on it) in 7 days. I'll post tomorrow my experience about it when I have time.

Goodluck to you and to your soon to be wife, I hope you can get everything done without too much hassle. Best wishes in advance