Where to get married

These days, couples are becoming more and more adventurous in their choices of wedding location. If you don’t want to be married in church, more and more places around the UK are becoming licensed for weddings and your options are expanding all the time. If you do want to be married in church, you don’t necessarily have to use your own church. The important thing is to book early! You can also go abroad to get married: a whole world of exciting locations is open to you for your wedding.

UK wedding

There are lots of interesting places to have a wedding that’s a bit different from your friends’. For example, you could get married:

• at the zoo
• at a castle
• at a stately home
• in a theatre complex
• on a boat or ship

Wedding abroad

Another popular idea is to get married abroad. There are limitless delightful places for a wedding overseas, both traditionally in church and more modernly somewhere exotic such as on the beach.

Depending on your budget – and that of your prospective guests – you can have your wedding in America, the Caribbean, Thailand, South Africa, the Seychelles… Closer to home, Italy is a romantic destination, Malta is very beautiful too and many celebrities have gone to Gibraltar to get married.

For information about laws relating to where you can marry so that your wedding will be legally recognised in the UK, click on the link to consult the General Register Office.