MARRIAGE
You have four options of where you can marry in England and Wales.
- Any Register Office (A civil marriage)
- An Approved Venue - usually a hotel (A civil marriage)
- A Registered Building - this is a Nonconformist place of religious worship and includes Roman Catholic Churches, Sikh Temples and Mosques (A non-conformist religious marriage)
- A Church of England or Church in Wales (A conformist religious marriage).
If you intend to marry in a Church of England or Church in Wales church, then you don’t need to read any further. These pages give information for civil and nonconformist marriages only, so you should now contact your Minister or Vicar. You can find more information from the Church of England website.
Nonconformist religious marriages
Blackpool Registration Service will play a part in your preparations if:
- you intend to marry in a registered building (a nonconformist place of religious worship dissenting from the Anglican Church) where the building has no Authorised Person (AP). If this is the case, then a Registrar (R) is needed from the Registration Service to officiate at the marriage; and/or
- you live in the Local Authority District of Blackpool and you (or the address’s owner) pay Council Tax to Blackpool Council
Click here to view all the Registered Buildings for marriage in Blackpool. The list shows whether the religious building has an Authorised Person (AP) or not and therefore whether a Registrar (R) is needed to officiate from the Registration Service.
CIVIL PARTNERSHIP
You have two options of where you can hold a civil partnership ceremony within England and Wales.
- Any Register Office
- Any Approved Venue - usually a hotel.
CIVIL MARRIAGE AND CIVIL PARTNERSHIP
Blackpool Registration Service will play a part in your preparations if:
- You intend to hold your ceremony in the Register Office or Tower View Room or Sea View Room in Festival House or at other Approved Venues geographically situated in the Local Authority District of Blackpool, and/or
- you live in the Local Authority District of Blackpool and you (or the address's owner) pay Council Tax to Blackpool Council.
Click here to view the Approved Venues for Ceremonies in Blackpool.
To arrange your marriage or civil partnership, click on The Legal Preliminaries and Arranging Your Ceremony.
Use these DirectGov links to Search for a Register Office or Search for an Approved Venue outside of Blackpool but within England and Wales.
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