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Yes.

Has not recieved what paper?

Here are the rules for marriage, you will notice in the first paragraph they mention an Apostille...this is the counsel of Mexico website...

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$200 is a bit much .... and other than making another trip down so that you can throttle the neck of your 'planner' ... I would have a civil marriage and just remember the good parts of the Mexican one

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Ang, your post is not quit clear about what was to have an apostille. Was it the Mexican certificate?

If was some paper from Canada, then the wedding planner did not understand Canada's special condition re an apostille. Canada is not a signatory of the Hague Convention which created the apostille; thus it does not issue apostilles. If someone in Canada needs authentication of a document, it is necessary to take the Canadian document to a Mexican consulate in Canada where they will issue the necessary papers in place of an apostille.

There is much more information about apostilles here.

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Thanks for the quick replies..I will find out more information from the friend who got married, as I don't know the specifics...I know it was a paper that would be sent from Mexico though, not Canada.

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An apostille is not obtained in Mexico, but, as indicated in earlier comments . . . from the home country, and the cost is very minimal, certainly not CDN/US$200. If the planner is in Mexico and the money was sent/paid there, the friend has been ripped-off. If someone is providing a service to do this in Canada, then your friend should have shopped around better. An apostille is typically obtained the same day or in a matter of a few days at the most - judging by my personal experience obtaining them.

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Canada is not a signatory to the Hague Convention that created the Apostille but Mexico is. An Apostille is not a stand alone document so I suspect what the wedding planner meant was that the document to be Apostilled would be the marriage certificate as recorded in the Registro Civil of the municipio in Mexico where the civil wedding occurred. It was a civil wedding, not a church wedding, right?

If this needs to be done so that the marriage will be recognized in Canada then the document will have to be "legalized" by the Canadian Consulate in Mexico having jurisidiction over the geographical area of Mexico where the wedding was held.

If Canada will recognize the wedding without the need for "legalization" then your friend got duped and should get her money back, or if "legalization" is necessary then it should be done by the wedding planner at the Canadian consulate.

What is an apostille