Ideally you need to book your venue and the attendance of the Registrar simultaneously or the availability may not match up. Decide on your venue first and then sort out your dates over the telephone.

Call the Superintendent Registrar who attends marriages and civil partnerships at your chosen venue with a few suggested times and dates just before you talk to the venue and all can be confirmed within a couple of minutes.

The Superintendent Registrar is there to help and guide you and will try and answer as many queries as possible. A provisional booking of up to twelve months in advance may be made but that can only become a definite booking when you give a formal 'Notice of Marriage or Civil Partnership’

How far in advance may I make a booking?

A notice of marriage or civil partnership is valid for twelve months only at the designated venue. You may therefore not give notice of marriage or civil partnership to the Superintendent Registrar more than twelve months before the date of your marriage or civil partnership.

However you may be able to make an advance (provisional) booking with the Superintendent Registrar of the district where you wish to marry or form a civil partnership.

The Superintendent Registrar will be able to give you more precise information in this respect.

Where an advance booking for a marriage or civil partnership has been made, it is essential that a formal notice be given to the Superintendent Registrar, once you are legally able to do so.

Registration officers have a statutory duty to report any marriages or civil partnerships they suspect have been arranged for the sole purpose of evading the statutory immigration controls.

NOTE:- If you are a Foreign National you may need written permission to marry or form a civil partnership in this country and you may have to attend a designated Register Office to give your notice.