Pre Wedding Interview?? Does anyone know what this is for? (civil ceremony)

Its standard practice! to go over the legal paperwork primiarily to make sure the data is correct

"On the day of your marriage ceremony the Bride and Groom will need to speak with the registrar in private immediately prior to the ceremony. At this point the information that is to be entered into the marriage register is legally checked. The Bride and Groom can be interviewed together or separately if they are not intending to see each other before the ceremony"

took me 5mins max and i was in my finery when it happened, we did ours seperately of course

We were interviewed separately. To be honest, calling it an interview is overstating it. I was asked to confirm my name, my address, my age on the day, my Dad's name, his occupation and the names of the witnesses. Her final question was "Are you ready then?". Boy had the same set of questions about half an hour before, mine were in the five mins before the ceremony.

Yes. Ours was a civil ceremony in a hotel and we had ours separately before the ceremony - although you can have them together if you aren't doing the "not seeing each other before the ceremony" traditional thing.

You have your 'giving notice' interview of course, all they really do is go through on the day these details, double check everything including the names of the people doing the readings etc, and make sure that it's not a sham/forced marriage or anything (ie giving you a chance to run if it's against your will).

They interviewed me in the ceremony room at 1.00pm, then at 1.10pm we bought the guests through into the ceremony room, the registrars then interviewed my wife in the other side room and then we were free to proceed with the ceremony at 1.30pm as planned.

It's nothing at all to worry about - it is a legal requirement and it does only take a few minutes.

Oh ok so it's quite straight forward, I was getting worried that it might be for them to check that they hadn't lost any of our paperwork or something lol

Nope, it's mostly just to check your identities again, to make sure they have the right names when they call people up for the invites. It's also another step in the fight against sham marriages which, of course, if you are doing everything properly you have nothing to be concerned about.

Is it the same for church weddings does anyone know? (RC)

Sorry i dont know

No, We didnt have any pre ceremony interview for our catholic church ceremony. Then again you tend to meet with the priest a few times prior to the wedding day to discuss readings and for rehearsals etc so he probably runs through all that then I cant really remember to be honest.

I think it's just for civil ceremonies. Basically it's just to check that they have all the right details, , , ,