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Set the date


first thing to do is to select your venue, book the date provisionally and then contact the register office in the district where your marriage venue is located to check that the registrars are available on the date of your choice. Berkshire registrars are available for ceremonies every day of the week, including Sundays and Bank Holidays and provisional bookings can usually be made up to a year in advance of the wedding day, though some register offices may take provisional bookings for approved premises up to two years in advance.


W Confirm the booking


are a foreign national subject to immigration control, at your nearest designated register office. This is called ‘Giving Notice’ (see page 27) andmust be done at least 15 clear days before the ceremony, though it can be completed up to 12 months in advance of the day. Please note thatmost register offices work on an appointment system, so call in advance to make sure you will be able to see the registrar.


T Partnership ceremonies similarly apply (see pages 26 - 27). L


ike marriages, civil partnerships can be registered either at a register office or at an approved venue and the legal requirements of residency, documentation and giving notice


o confirm the booking of a marriage ceremony or civil partnership registration, you should attend the register office in the district where you have lived for at least seven days or, if you


hether you plan a religious ceremony other than in the Church of England, a wedding at an approved venue or a register office wedding with a reception afterwards, the


The groom traditionally pays for:


• All the fees -whether for church officials (including vicar, organist, choir, bellringers) or for the registrar and civil licence


• Bouquets for the bride and bridesmaids, sprays of flowers for the bride’smother and his ownmother and buttonholes for himself, the bestman and the ushers


• Engagement and wedding rings for the bride • Presents for the bestman and the bride’s attendants • Transport to the ceremony for himself and the bestman and to the reception for himself and the bride


• The honeymoon D R E A M W E D D I N G S I N B E R K S H I R E • 2 5


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