12,000 primarily foreign couples without residence in Denmark have been charged an illegal fee to get married at Copenhagen City Hall from 2018 and until this summer.

Copenhagen must repay millions for illegal marriage fees

Various couples who have just been married inside Copenhagen City Hall. Rebeca Villanueva Rodriguez, 37, born in Spain, and Tiago Cristiano Abreu Baltasar, 32, born in Portugal. Foto: Benjamin Krog
Various couples who have just been married inside Copenhagen City Hall. Rebeca Villanueva Rodriguez, 37, born in Spain, and Tiago Cristiano Abreu Baltasar, 32, born in Portugal. Foto: Benjamin Krog
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Foreign couples from all over the world have flocked to Copenhagen in recent years to get married at the city’s 120-year-old town hall designed by architect Martin Nyrop.

Now it turns out that many of them have received a wedding gift from the municipality that it could have done without.

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