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-church or civil?
Register Office ceremonies Register Office weddings are typically easy, intimate and inexpensive and, while in the past the ambience might have left a little to be desired, nowadays register officemarriage rooms are smart and inviting. Theywill always have a display of flowers in season and the facility to play music. However intimate a ceremony you plan, do remember that you need to bring with you twowitnesseswhowill sign themarriage register.
Approved venues Over 100 venues in Berkshire are curently licensed to celebrate civil marriages, from hotels and restaurants to countrymanors and stately homes, fromtown halls to golf clubs and evenReading FootballClub andAscot Racecourse. You can find a list on pages 8 - 9 (correct at the time of going to press). Ceremonies can take place on any day – including Sundays and Bank Holidays – between 8am and 6pm. You will need two registrars at your wedding, one to conduct the ceremony and the other to register yourmarriage.
Partnership ceremonies In December 2005,
the Civil Partnership
Registration Act came into force, enabling single- sex couples to register as civil partners of each other. Registration provides a framework whereby same-sex couples can celebrate their commitment to each other, acknowledge their mutual reponsibilities, manage their financial arrangements and achieve recognition as each other’s partner.
In this way, committed same-sex relationships can be recognised and registered partners achieve a new legal status which reflects their importance in each other’s lives.
Like 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 similarly apply.
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