Cheapest of the cheap cheap weddings...

Tunstallstoven

Hi all

My partner and I are considering getting married purely for financial and money saving reasons. We wouldn't even be telling anyone. I've looked into it and from what I can see the costs would be:

- £35 each for "giving notice"
- £46 for the registry office ceremony (early bird special )
- £4 for the certificate if bought on the day.

That's all I can find. Have I missed anything though and if so what please?

Many thanks


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ceb1995

Seperate to the wedding, there d be costs if you wanted to change either of your names but otherwise as long as you have all the documents you need to give notice then you ve covered everything

Tunstallstoven

Ah, I'll look into that. Haven't decided about names yet. Do you know what the costs to do that are please? And presumably we would then have to change names with official documents, bills, etc etc and that might incur costs too... Hmmm...

In terms of the documents needed to give notice, from what I've read it is passport OR birth certificate, utility bill/bank statement, and any change of name notices. Does that cover it?

Thanks for the help

thorsoak

If either of you has been married before, a copy of the decree absolute.

Tunstallstoven

Good thinking thorsoak, but neither of us have. Unless there's something she's not telling me...

Kynthia

If either of you has changed your name by deed poll you need to bring that. Plus I'd recommend buying a copy of the wedding certificate at the time too. That way you can send off the copy when needing to show proof of marriage/new name and keep the original safe and good condition.

Check if there are costs to change your name on your passport, driving license, European Health Card, etc.

trailingspouse

Of course, the wife doesn't need to change her name at all - thus saving any potential costs in that direction.

Janey3

We had 2 friends as witnesses and took them for a meal afterwards as a thank you. Hope you have a lovely day when the day arrives.

Mojisola

Kynthia wrote: »

Plus I'd recommend buying a copy of the wedding certificate at the time too. That way you can send off the copy when needing to show proof of marriage/new name and keep the original safe and good condition.

This is a good idea with all certificates - birth, marriage and death.

arbrighton

If you are changing names, buy two or three copies of cert (on the day price is cheaper)7

You only get one on the day but the rest follow by post.

There haven't been many costs for changing name that I can recall, other than my time and postage etc! But def easier with more than one proper cert as then you still have one in hand in case of loss etc

barbarawright

You can ask the register office people to provide witnesses (they can't do it themselves but they'll point you to the nearest council office. If you go down this route, it's standard practise to give chocolates or flowers to the witnesses (speaking as someone you used to do witness duty regularly)