Registrars continued

[triskellian]

An hour or so after I finish on the phone with the registrar, she calls me back to apologise for forgetting to tell me about the fee for them to come out and conduct our wedding. It's surprisingly large. I'd foolishly assumed that the registry fee was the bit mentioned by the venue as 'wedding fees' or something similar, but I'm now assuming that's just the universal hike-the-prices-up-a-bit-for-weddings that everyone seems to apply.

I wonder how much it costs just to go down to the registry office one afternoon, in our regular clothes, with a couple of witnesses in tow...

Comments

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

£37.50 by certificate or £46.50 by licence, apparently. this site suggests that those fees are standard across England and Wales, but that the local authority can charge what it pleases (more or less) to send out their registrars.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

From my very own office :

This is the official page.

£94 to marry at an actual office (this includes a £34 fee for the registrar's attendance).

£60 + LA defined fee for marriage at an approved building.

And then, a further £3-50 for a marriage certificate on the day.

[ealuscerwen.livejournal.com]

That used to be standard procedure for Jewish weddings in the UK. The couple got married at the registry office a few days beforehand, then had the ceremony they considered the "real" marriage ceremony later. It avoided this sort of hassle...

Corinne

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

What a good idea. I approve of anything that makes weddings more fun and less paperwork.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It's also what most of my married pagan friends did. One couple I know, who were having a massive shindig for their Wiccan handfasting a few days later, apparently went to the registry office in old jeans and crumpled T-shirts and giggled all the way through the ceremony.