Moving to Japan with my soon to be wife

I'm heading to Japan in October from the UK to get all my documents certified and to obviously visit her again. I'm trying to get my affidavit before I go there so it's ready when I arrive, so I know I need to book it online. I'm curious if I should be waiting to apply for it until August as it says it is only valid for 3 months, but I don't know if that means it will only be valid for 3 months once it is certified at the embassy im Tokyo.

My other issue is how easy it is to book an appointment for a specific day 3 months in advance. Will this be enough time to guarantee an appointment on a specific day as I'm only there for 3 weeks and we obviously have other things we need to do afterwards, so we need this done early in the trip. There is also the issue of marriage/affidavit appointments only being available on Tuesday and Wednesday at the British embassy. Or is all of this irrelevant and I should apply now and book my appointment ASAP regardless.

Please if someone has experience with this, it would be greatly appreciated if you could let me know anything else I should know as it is obviously very expensive to keep going back and forth so I would like to do this correct the first time.

Erm, thanks.

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