Copenhagen faces repaying thousands of couples after illegal fees for weddings

Authorities could face bill of up to 23m krone for wrongful charges over seven-year period to mostly foreign couples

Authorities in Copenhagen could face a bill of tens of millions of krone after it emerged that the city had illegally charged wedding fees to about 12,000 couples over seven years.

Most of those who were charged during the period are understood to have been from outside Denmark and did not have permanent residence in the country.