I've had a google and can't find the answer.(or wasn't looking in the right place.) I can find that you have to get married in England and Wales between the hours of 8am and 6pm but can't find anything that tells me why it is these times? I would have thought if you had a priest,vicar, registrar willing then you could get married anytime. If anyone knows why then please let me know as its doing my head in now.

Found this on a web site


Dates back to the days when the only place you could get married was in a church.
The vicar/priest had to say morning prayers before he could ''open '' the church for other services. Similarly at the end of the day , no other services could be held after evensong , traditionally held (and still is) at 6pm. For hundreds of years you could not get married on a Sunday as the church was ''in use'' for other services and prayers all day. When the law changed to allow non church weddings the civil wedding registrars kept to the same time table . (plus it fitted in with office hours)

marrying the wrong person lol thats funny xx

hehe marrying the wrong person

Dont they know they have lights now and it is never dark in the summer till like 9pm now so in that case in the summer you shouldbe alowed a wedding at 8.30pm

i get that vicars/priests/registars need lives but sometimes i wish this could extend to other areas of life too, like shop workers :)

It's one of those old laws that never got updated, but I think 8am-6pm is plenty of time!

I agree with you Mrs Daltry :D