Relatively new to the forum so a big hello. I'm a bit of an outdoorsy type and would love to have a wedding on the beach or by a lake in the UK. Has anybody done this. Obviously my main concern about doing this in the UK is the weather. shall I just risk it and keep my fingers crossed and umbrellas at the ready!
CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
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CommentAuthorx~Hails~x
Im not sure but I dont think there are many beach/outdoor wedding venues in england that have the proper liances needed to get married legally?? I think someone was saying before that in order to do this they would have to go to the registry offic first and do all the legal bits (get married really) and THEN go to the beach or outdoor venue and have a blessing instead in front of family and friends, so I would say get in touch with your local reg office and ask them for a list of all the outdoor venues you can get married at and then go from there hunni!
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CommentAuthorJilly17
Hi Surf chick and welcome! Venues are only licensed for permanent structures but I have seen a few where people are married in gazebos or in the doorway of a venue with the guests seated outside. To get a truly outside wedding it would be the offical stuff first and thena blessing as Hails suggests. I love the idea of outdoor weddings but knowing my luck it would be a freak storm or something but as long as you are prepared for the worst case weather scenario then go for it!
CommentAuthorlala "mod" bunni
sorry to spoil your dream hun but in England you have to be married where there is w permanent structure
Your wedding ceremony must take place in a licensed premises. You can have both – a religious or a civil marriage. The marriage must be conducted by a person or in the presence of a person authorised to register marriages in the district. The marriage also must be entered in the marriage register and signed by both parties, two witnesses, the person who conducted the ceremony and, if that person is not authorised to register marriages, the person who is registering the marriage. For more information see Getting Married or Forming a civil partnership.
Where can a marriage take place? (the information is from Citizen Advice Bureu)
a Register Office a church of the Church of England, Church in Wales, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian or Roman Catholic Church in N. Ireland a synagogue or any other private place if both partners are Jewish a Meeting House if one or both partners are either members of the Society of Friends or are associated with the Society by attending meetings any other religious building provided that the person marrying the couple is registered by the Registrar General premises approved by the local authority (England and Wales only) a place where one partner is seriously ill and not expected to recover the home of one of the partners if the partner is housebound, for example, has serious disabilities or is agoraphobic a hospital, if one of the partners is unable to leave or is detained there as a psychiatric inpatient a prison, if one partner is a prisoner. Local authorities in England and Wales may approve premises other than Register Offices where civil marriages may take place. Applications for approval must be made by the owner or trustee of the building, not the couple.
There are many sites where you can search for civil wedding venues by type or by name. You can also check the city council website of your area, where you can usually find a full list of licensed venues in your town.
However, you can still organize your dream wedding on a beach. How? Here are the two main ways to get married on a beach in the UK.
You can go and get married in a licensed/approved wedding venue or in a register office just with your witnesses. You will need this to sign your marriage certificate. After that, you can have an unofficial blessing wherever you want and celebrate your actual wedding with your guests. This can happen even in another day. You can choose to get married in a venue situated on a beach (a list of such venues in the UK will be published soon). You still have to be inside for the official part of your wedding, but after that you can enjoy a real beach wedding outside and make all you’ve dreamed for come true.
Some hotels have gazebos so u can legaly get married outside check all your local hotels see uf they have one nr u x
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CommentAuthorlinzmum
there is a beach hut in Bournemouth which has now been given a licence to hold beach weddings but that is the first in Britain/uk. I am having a beach wedding in Eastbourne but we have to go and sign the register and say the 2 'legal' lines at the registry office which we are doing first thin in the morning. we have also found a hotel on the beach which is given us the hall for the day so if it rains we can just hold the ceremony inside the hotel at no extra charge. if you do something similar then just make sure you contact the local council for permission as we need to pay £25 for a permit to hold and 'event' on the beach lol. not a lot but its lucky we aked so now can avoid a large fine.
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CommentAuthorMrs Badger
I am having an outdoor wedding, at a country park in Scotland. Wanted something that looked completely natural, but with facilities for the guests. Hope you manage to find some way of having the ceremony outside, like the other ladies say it has to be a licensed venue in England. x
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
Where are you based? Humanist ceremonies are legal in Scotland.
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CommentAuthorAnnette
We are having an outside wedding in the hotels back garden, that way if it rains we can always just move inside :) But yeah, we will be doing the legal bits inside, then a blessing outdoors.
Although I'm sure some people are flexible enough to let you do everything outdoors, then just go inside to do the legal bits :)
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CommentAuthorkrissy905
the hotel i was originally going for have just been licenced to do wedding there newly built gazebo as its permanent structure. i think your best bet is to ring yourregistryy office and see if they know of any thing like that near you that islicencedd or check there website my council have all there venues withlicencess on there now.
CommentAuthormym72
In England you can't get married outside - but if you go to Scotland you're allowed to. Looking at where you are, that might be too far though lol.
CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
I just remembered - extended family got married in Brighton last year. The bandstand holds a wedding licence. You still have a roof above your head but it's a very outdoorsy feeling with tge open sides and directly at the sea. I only saw pics of their wedding and it was stunning - looked like some holiday destination because they got married on one of the very sunny days.
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CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
we wanted to do this in a woodland and it was not possible, the only way we could have is to do reg office quickly with a few people due to cost then we looked at getting a celebrant to do the outside ceremony which we could have afforded and we found a place to do it at the local aboretum, we were first told all we would have to do was pay for the guests entrance fee wich came to about £250 for 50 so we thought great, we went for a meeting with them did a reki everything, decided on the place and picnic etc, then we got an email saying they wanted to charge us £1000!! that was our entire budget! but in a way it was a good thing because when we thought about it more it would have meant only a few people would have seen us actually get married and the humanist ceremony be it before or after the reg office wouldnt have felt the same as we would have already been married or known this wasnt the real thing. hope you find somewhere x
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
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I am getting married in a gazebo in the garden of a hotel. previous posters are right in that it has to be a permanant structure with a roof, and in daylight hours. our gazebo IS a permanant structure, and has been licenced for weddings. they have relaxed the laws a little bit because not long ago......i am talking only 3 years ago, not even that was allowed. it had to be inside. a bit archaic i know. it is quite expensive mind you. not only do we have to pay the registrar to tavel to the hotel, £450, the hotel also charges for the use of the gazebo for the ceremony.....£200 i think. so thats £600 JUST to be allowed to marry in a gazebo, churches dont cost that much!
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CommentAuthorFitchMcCombe
If you really want to go outdoors hop over the border to Scotland, they are so much more accomodating here, as far as marriage locations go, especially if you wanted to be married by a minister (which I won't be) as here it is the minister that holds the license not the holy building.
CommentAuthorMrsKisywisy
as others have said, you can come up to scotland as get married anywhere you want, as it's the registrar/minister who hold the licence.
i went through a phase of wanting to find a beautiful wooded area, with lots of wild flowers growing about, to get married.
it's such a shame the rules aren't the same elsewhere in the uk :(
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