Cheapest way to get married

Alloneword

I know, I know it's not romantec but i need to get married for legal reasons.

I have read it's £43 but according to my local council info it's way more then that,

• Notice fee (per person), £35
• Ceremony at register office - Wednesday £49

Anyway i can get round this or do i need this notice fee thing?


All1

GobbledyGook

£125 all in is the cheapest in my area (notice, ceremony & extract) so it seems that notice is required everywhere.

The only way to do it cheaper would be to have a religious marriage if it was somehow free as then it'd only be notice fees. However, the only time I've ever heard of that happening was when one of the couple was very, very ill. I think £119 is likely to be the cheapest.

Olive_Oyl

Alloneword wrote: »

I know, I know it's not romantec but i need to get married for legal reasons.




All1

No love involved then ?

Alloneword

Olive_Oyl wrote: »

No love involved then ?

Plenty of love just don't need a bit of paperwork to tell us we love each other, so much for "Free love"

All1

Alloneword

I'm having 2nd thoughts after watching this
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e6f_1398731985

All1

CKhalvashi

As above, £125 is probably the cheapest you'll find.

Average is about £18000 now, so less than 1% of that is pretty moneysaving!

CK

seven-day-weekend

And you will be jsut as married after the £125 wedding.

£18k?!! People must be stark raving bonkers. That's a house deposit.

bagpussbear

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

£18k?!! People must be stark raving bonkers. That's a house deposit.

Someone I worked with about 5 years back, her sister was getting married and was spending £27k on her wedding (they weren't rich or anything like that). I said that I thought her sister was bonkers to spend that much and this colleague pretty much blanked me from there on, feeling I had insulted her sister! Crazy money huh.

Annisele

Alloneword wrote: »

I know, I know it's not romantec but i need to get married for legal reasons.
All1

Don't put it quite like that when you speak to the registrar! It makes it sound as though you're trying to marry some random person off the street because you need a British spouse for immigration purposes or something.

I got married recently, and the registrar spoke to us separately at the notice appointment. Plenty of questions about each other's full name, occupation, places we'd lived before etc - it was very much "do you actually know this person". (According to friends that doesn't happen everywhere, but in my area it definitely does).

jess1974

Getting married is cheap......its the divorce that will cost you xxx

System

Cant remember about the notice fees but I remember when i got married it was in a small chapel. They only asked for a donation. As far as I know, the chapel still asks for a donation.