Is it possible for any EU citizen to marry in any country of the EU other than his/her own? I mean marrying according the legislation of any given EU country and not in the consular post of the EU citizen.

Also would it be possible for the EU citizen to marry a 'third country' person while this one only have a tourist visa?

I'm aware that the legislation from country to country might be different but i'm more concerned about the EU policy about EU citizens marrying in other EU countries.

 

I'm from Portugal, and she is from Russia and we would like to marry in France (Paris) since many of family are Portuguese living there

 

I know what the answer of many people would be under such circunstances.. Why dont you marry in Portugal?

Well to be completly sincere, we already tried, but since her visa was almost expiring we were advised (by Portuguese officials) to go to Russia get her a new visa and come back to Portugal to marry, to our surprise we find out that we couldn't get her another visa because she had used up all the extensions of tourist visa given to a third country foreign in 1 year period and we would have to wait another 6 months to get another visa.

Given the situation in which we are now, and having the possibility of getting her a business visa (for France) valid for a year, we thought that maybe we could marry there and officialize it in Portuguese Consulate in Paris.

 

Also (i forgot to mention) it is very difficult to marry in Russia because of the legislation they have, making it completly unfair and abusive for EU citizen.

And of course we can't marry in the Portuguese consulate in Moscow because for that i would need to be get permanent residency in Russia which is nearly impossible for anyone to do.