Information for your Wedding

Note if you want to get married in St. Mary's you should first contact the Rector

Resources

Full text of a typical Church of England marriage service.

Planning your wedding and want ides? check out the Church of England's wedding site

Fees

There is a non-refundable deposit of £50 to ensure your wedding date is held and is payable when the booking is taken - this deposit will count towards the final fee for your wedding. Below are the fees for the current year.

Wedding Fees 2010 Marriage Service: £260.00 Verger and Sound System: £40.00 Choir (doubled if video used): £100.00 Organist (doubled if video used): £50.00 Bells: £72.00 Flower arranging (basic cost of oasis & transport: excl price of flowers): £66.00 Publication of Banns: £19.00 Marriage Certificate: £3.50 Heating (if needed): £25.00 Certificate of Banns (if needed): £12.00

Examples:

Wedding: inc choir, organ, bells, flowers, No Video, no heating Marriage Service 260.00 Verger & Sound 40.00 Choir 100.00 Organ 50.00 Bells 72.00 Flower arranging 66.00 Extra Certificate 3.50 ------------ Total £ 591.50	Wedding: organ and Flowers no video, no heating Marriage Service 260.00 Verger & Sound 40.00 Organ 50.00 Flower arranging 66.00 Extra Certificate 3.50 ------------ Total £ 419.50
Wedding: inc choir, organ, bells, flowers, Video - no heating Marriage Service 260.00 Verger & Sound 40.00 Choir 200.00 Organ 100.00 Bells 72.00 Flower arranging 66.00 Extra Certificate 3.50 ------------ Total £ 741.50	Wedding: No Organ, no choir no bells, no heating no flowers (in lent) Marriage Service 260.00 Verger & Sound 40.00 ------------ Total £ 300.00

Please make cheques payable to Ashwell PCC

 

Note if you want to get married in St. Mary's you should first contact the Rector.

New Measures

Many are asking about the 'new rules', or measure, regarding who can get married in our church:

The Measure seeks to respond to changing social conditions and in particular to the increasing mobility of our society today.  It does not affect the existing right of parishioners. A couple continue to have the right to be married in our church where one or both of you are resident or entered on the electoral roll.  

However some people would like to marry in a church because it has special significance for you, even though it is not where they live. This  measure enables a church to offer the same welcome to a couple who wish to marry there and who can demonstrate a straightforward connection with the parish as it does to those who live in the parish itself, without the couple having to apply for a special licence.

The object of the Measure is to grant couples the same right to marry in the parish church of a parish with which one or both of them can demonstrate a "qualifying connection" of a kind specified in the new legislation as a person resident in the parish would have.

A person has a Qualifying Connection with a parish if:

that person:

• was baptised in the parish. (This does not apply where the baptism formed part of a combined service of baptism or confirmation); or
• had his or her confirmation entered in a church register book of a church or chapel in the parish; or
• has at any time had his or her usual place of residence in the parish for at least 6 months; or
• has at any time habitually attended public worship in the parish for at least 6 months;

or a Parent of that person has at any time during that person's lifetime:

• had his or her usual place of residence in the parish for at least 6 months; or
• habitually attended public worship in the parish for at least 6 months;

or a Parent or Grandparent of that person was married in the parish.

In all these cases/In all cases involving church services - i.e. coming to/going to/attending normal church services, baptism, confirmation or marriage - this applies only to Church of England services.

If you feel you qualify for the above and would like to discuss your wedding, and book your wedding please contact us.