giving notice of marriage advice please?

nozzy6

I'm a bit confused on the whole giving notice thing - we're planning on a civil ceremony in either a registry office or hotel but that will be in yorkshire, and we live in surrey. So do we need to go to our local registry office to give notice, and then after the 15 days we can book the registrar etc in yorkshire or do we need to have a date before we give notice? I need someone to explain in really simple terms because I'd hate to get it wrong and find out on the day we can't do it!!!!

Thanks

lilian1977

OK, it is quite confusing but this is what I did:

1. Booked my appointment to give notice at my local registry office (so in your case, Surrey). I had to do this because the registry where we're marrying insisted we at least had an appointment as they are having a lot of drop outs.

2. Booked my ceremony at Bristol registry office

3. Gave notice at Manchester registry

4. Manchester registry then informed Bristol that we had given notice

5. Bristol wrote to us to confirm our ceremony date and time


In your case, I would say you need to provisionally book the date at the registry or hotel, as you have to give this information when you give notice. If it changes you have to give notice (and pay for it) again. Best bet is to speak to the places you want to get married and see what they say - but you need to make sure that when you give notice your information is 100% correct, and also that the registrar will be available.

It's a kind of chicken/egg situation really but as long as you do everything fairly close together you should be fine

nozzy6

that is exactly what I needed, thankyou!

dizziblonde

I'm getting married in a registry office different to where I live and what I was advised to do by the lovely registrar there was to provisionally book the date at the place I wanted to marry, THEN make an appt at my local office to give notice there (need ID, FULL birth certificate - caused problems for me since I've only got a short one). They then post it for the 14 days, and contact the place you're getting married to say notice has been lodged. Then you have to go collect the certificate for marriage from that office and are responsible for getting it to the wedding registry office basically.

aimee21j

Agree with all the above. Check the pricng structure because I have just found out that our ceremony should cost £103 but they are honouring the £43.50 they told us last year. Apparently it all depends on the time you book on the day.

kazmeister

We are having a civil ceremony in Gibraltar. Do we need to let our local registry office know?

aimee21j

I think you do Kaz. Contact your local one.

xJayJayx

we did what dizziblonde did.
We were advised by the venue to provisionally book the venue (they held the date for 10days), book the registrar and then come back and confirm and put down the deposit for the venue. We're getting married in brentwood but as it isn't a london borough like havering (it only up the road!) is we have to go to our local registry office and give notice there and they will inform brentwood for us then we sort out the rest.