Congratulations if you have recently become engaged to be married!

As well as providing a beautiful and atmospheric setting, getting married in Church enables you to seek God’s blessing as you make such solemn vows and celebrate your love. It helps you feel part of history and of the local community, and you’ll always be welcomed and supported there, long after the day itself.

We’d love to chat to you about arranging your wedding ceremony in one of our historic parish churches. Please note that St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate is a ‘chapel-of-ease’ to the parish church of St Lawrence, and is not currently licensed for marriages except in exceptional circumstances. It’s your legal right to be married in St Bartholomew or St Lawrence if one of you lives in either parish or can demonstrate a link known as a “Qualifying Connection”. This Church of England guide has lots of information about this and other questions you may have.  Once you’ve had a look there, please fill in the Wedding Enquiry form below, and a member of the Ministry Team will be in touch with you shortly. Please also contact us if you would like to talk about a service of blessing or prayers following a civil ceremony, or about renewing your vows, perhaps for a special anniversary.

If you live in our parishes but are planning a wedding in a church elsewhere, banns of marriage must be published here in your home parish church, as well as where you are going to be married. Please fill in the Banns Enquiry form below, so that we have the information we will need to do this.