Now that you’ve secured your wedding date and made the wonderful decision to marry at the incredible Pendrell Hall, you might be thinking what’s next? The next most important task is to give notice of your marriage and secure a wedding registrar for the ceremony. You can give notice from 12 months before your wedding date, but no later than 28 days before.

Giving notice is done by appointment at your local register office. This is where you state your intention to marry in the form of a legal document. If you live outside the registration district of Pendrell Hall, you must give notice at the office within the district of where you live and have lived for at least the past 7 days.

At your appointment you will be asked several questions regarding personal details about yourself and your partner. This is nothing to worry about as this is just how the register office identifies that you are legally able to marry. You will be required to provide several documents like personal identification such as a passport and proof of your address. It is important that you contact the register office for a full list of the necessary documents, as if you cannot provide sufficient documentation at the meeting, you will have to pay for and attend another appointment.

Following this, you will sign a legal document stating your intentions of marriage, which will then be displayed in the Register Office publicly for 28 days. During this period, this gives the public the opportunity to make it known if they are aware of any legal reasons as to why you should not marry.