Weddings

Weddings are a joyful and wonderful celebration and we’d love to help you to plan your special day. The first step is to contact our Clergy team for an initial discussion and to plan a meeting, not only to plan your special day, but also to ensure your married life together gets the best possible start by conducting some marriage preparation with you, usually over a meal.

Church weddings are beautiful services which invite God to be involved in our relationship. To help with your planning, why not look at the Church of England’s wedding page.

The day is full of love and joy but there is also a serious legal element to the day which has to be followed.

Couples looking to get married in in the group need what's called a qualifying connection to the church. This means that you or your fiancee fulfil at least one of the following:

• you regularly attend services at one of our churches and have done for more than six months
• you live or have lived within one of our parishes for more than six months, to find this out, please click here
• you were baptised or confirmed at one of the parishes in the Benefice
• your parents have resided in one of our villages for six months or more, during your lifetime.
• your parents or grandparents were married in one of our villages

We look forward to being part of your special day.