Marriage in Poland may be contracted as a civil ceremony in the registry office or in a church. In Poland, for a marriage to be recognized by law, it must be registered in the registry office. The registry office issues a marriage certificate that confirms the validity of the union. The marriage rite conducted according to tradions of some religiona (e.g. Catholic) can be recognized an registered by the registry office in Poland without the necessity of enternig into a sepetate civil marriage. This is the so-called concordat marriage.

The Polish legal system define marriage as a continiued, equal relationship of man and woman create from its will in formal way. So we can evaluate this institution as a bilateral legal action approximate to contract. To marry in Poland it is necessery that two persons opposite sex and single to submit an declaration about a intention to marry. An inportat aspect necessery to make a legal marriage is that there is required presence of manager of registry office. Persons which want to marry they have to come of age. The only exeption is when the court of justice allow to marry for 16 year old woman and 18 year old man. This is happening when the court of justice acknowledge that in some matter that marriage will be good for them ( for example if a 16 year old woman is pregnant)