register office ceremony

rafhelp

Do you HAVE to do the register signing at the room hire they provide, or can you say for example do the signing and vows at your own home and just get the registrar(s) to visit your home?


Just the last two reg offices I visited seemed quite daunting and not very friendly.

peachyprice

You can only get married in a building that is licensed for marriages ie. register office, hotel, other such public buildings, not your own home or outside in the open.

candlelight_2013

The building needs to be registered for marriages, and a private dwelling, presumably not a stately home, will not be.

Hope that helps

Candlelightx

candlelight_2013

PEACHY Snap

Candlelightx

Mojisola

rafhelp wrote: »

Do you HAVE to do the register signing at the room hire they provide, or can you say for example do the signing and vows at your own home and just get the registrar(s) to visit your home?

Just the last two reg offices I visited seemed quite daunting and not very friendly.

There's no reason why you couldn't do the legal bit at the RO with just the two of you and two witnesses and then arrange a ceremony to suit yourself at home.

Armchair23

Just going through the tedious hell of explaining to Son & future DIL that nobody wants to know about your extensive plans about where you wish to get married and gambol through the flowers
because none of them include a registered venue.

Ha !

It's idiotic really, it's a contract and one that many people seem happy to ditch after a couple of years. It might make more sense to make the registrar the key issue rather than the venue. So if you have a registrar that's happy to marry you the venue is irrelevant.

TonyMMM

You could apply for your home to be a registered venue - I know of one such case where the couple wanted to do that so they could marry in their own place - but you have to go through the full premises registration process and it isn't cheap.

Gloomendoom

TonyMMM wrote: »

You could apply for your home to be a registered venue - I know of one such case where the couple wanted to do that so they could marry in their own place - but you have to go through the full premises registration process and it isn't cheap.

I know a couple who did the same, not for their own home, but that of one of my relatives.

Seanymph

The good thing is that you can go to ANY registered venue (as opposed to only the nearest church - you can't pick a pretty church, it has to be your LOCAL church).

A registered venue will take you wherever you live.

http://swpp.co.uk/wedding_venues/Norfolk.htm

You pick your County and there they are.

I loved one in Kent - I thought it was the abbots house, but I can't find it now.

So, you can go anywhere licenced, and there are awesome places about.

inkie

^^not strictly true. It is only the c of e who have restrictions on the church normally being the local church. Other denominations are flexible.

peachyprice

TonyMMM wrote: »

You could apply for your home to be a registered venue - I know of one such case where the couple wanted to do that so they could marry in their own place - but you have to go through the full premises registration process and it isn't cheap.

And then you have to make it available to anyone else who wants to get married there