Other marriage and civil partnership information
Information and services
Giving notice
Including who can give notice, when and where you can give notice, and the documents required and the fees involved.
Music and readings
Personalise your ceremony with music and readings.
Choice of legal wording
Choose the declaratory and contracting words to be used in your ceremony.
Copy certificates
How to get a certified copy of a birth, death or marriage entry online, by post, by telephone or in person
Civil partnership without a ceremony
You and your partner can sign a civil partnership document in the presence of two witnesses and a registrar.
Changing your name on your passport
How you go about changing your name on your passport.
Marriage in a church or other religious building
If you would like a religious marriage ceremony, you can get married in an Anglican Church or any other church or religious building registered for marriage.
Civil partnership to marriage conversion
You are able to convert a civil partnership to a marriage by completing a declaration before a superintendent registrar, with all the required documents.
Urgent Marriage or Civil Partnership
Urgent marriage or civil partnership (Registrar General's Licence) is when the Registrar General can authorise marriages or civil partnerships to take place at short notice in circumstances where one of the parties is seriously ill, not expected to recover and cannot be moved.
Marriage and civil partnership of housebound or detained persons
Under the Marriage and Civil Partnership Act it is possible to hold a marriage or civil partnership in a place where a person is housebound or detained if they are unable to be moved.
Overseas
For a marriage or civil partnership overseas, you will need to find out what procedures are required by the local authorities in the country you have chosen, in order to ensure your marriage or civil partnership is legal.
- Reviewed: 06 Feb 2024
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