For a faith wedding you can get married in a church, chapel or registered religious building. Even if you want to get married in a religious ceremony you may have to register your marriage at your register office.
If you are having an Anglican or a Church of England wedding then you don’t usually have to register at a register office. Wichita Falls Wedding Photography The officials who perform the marriage will give notice and register the marriage.
Preparation for a religious ceremony will change depending on what your religion is. To be extra safe, talk to your religious officiant to make sure you have covered everything before your wedding. Generally for a religious ceremony, instead of giving notice, banns (a formal announcement of the proposed marriage) will be read in the church of each partner and in the church where the marriage will take place if it is different on three Sundays before the ceremony takes place.
For some Christian religious ceremonies you will still need a registrar to make it legal and provide a marriage certificate so double check with your officiant. You could also check with your local register office as they will know whether or not the venue where you want to get married is registered to do weddings.
Some religious weddings will require you to give notice at the register office at least sixteen days before the wedding. Not all ministers and priests are authorised to give notice or register your marriage.
Church of England and Anglican Weddings.
The wedding must take place in a recognised religious building. The doors must be unlocked and the wedding must take place between 8am and 6pm. The ceremony can take place on any day of the week as long as the minster, vicar or reverend agrees. Getting a Sunday might be hard however.
When you meet the minister you will have to take the following:
Your baptism certificate.
Passport and/or birth certificate.
Written parental consent if you are under eighteen.
Decree absolutes if divorced or death certificate if widowed.
The minister will read out the banns on three consecutive Sundays within three months before the wedding date. The banns declare the couple’s intention to marry and give people a chance to object. If you are not marrying in your usual church then the banns will have to be read there as well. Check your parish boundaries to make sure all is correct, they may not follow modern postcode boundaries. The minister will issue and sign the marriage certificate after the ceremony.
For full details check out the Church of England website at www.yourchurchwedding.org
Catholic Wedding.
The below also applies to Russian and Greek weddings.
You must give notice if you are having a civil wedding in a catholic church if the Catholic church is listed as the venue of marriage. A civil registrar may need to attend in some situations, not to conduct the ceremony however, but to arrange the signing of the register and handle the paperwork. An appointed person from the church may be allowed. Things can vary greatly so you should check early. Especially as the day you want to get married may get booked up.
Jewish Wedding.
Jewish weddings are not subject to the same licensing restrictions as civil weddings. They can take place in a synagogue. They also do not have to take place in a permanent structure so you could get married outside.
If you are being married by a rabbi then you give notice at your local register office as you would for a civil ceremony. You then pass the notices on to the rabbi. A civil registrar will have to attend in some situations to sign the paperwork. In most cases the rabbi will bring an appointed person to officiate the ceremony or sign the certificate.