Registrar's Fees!

We are paying £350 then notices and i thought that was expensive!!

Ouch, that is expensive! Ours charge £33.50 for each notice and then £385 for a Mon-Sat or £470 for a Sunday.

Oh my god thats silly!

I know it all depends on the council- but ours is 95 quid including the certificate and everything!

Meggles i want to live where you live!! we have to pay £3.50 for our certificate ontop. Granted not the largest amount of money but would have thought it was included after forking out a couple of hundred and it kind of is the whole point of the whole day.

I think its a rip off.

as they are coming to venue £420 + £70 notices.

if it was in office.. £100 + £70 notices

Our's is £165 + £30 each for notice. I think ours is £3.50 for the cert as well.

I have no idea why or how they can charge so much - I hope it's all needed for something and not an inflated price.

Ours is £125 and an extra £50 to have him wed us at the hotel instead of the registry office. So £175 all together.

Ours is £263.50 , plus £60 for the bands , then £3.50 for the certificate, they r comming to our venue

We've paid £60 notice fees and as we're getting married in a licensed premises we've got to pay £310.

If we were to do it at the registry office it would be about £90 that's all.

We're in ealing- so its not like its a dump- and the building is groegous with huge marble staircases!

We ended up quite lucky!- especially as this was just the formality bit and our real wedding is the day after!

We actually shopped around looking for councils with cheapest fees and luckily our own was the cheapest!

Ours is £450 plus £33 each to give notice, it really is a bloody rip off, havnt looked how much the certificate is yet!

£454.50 for the registrar to come to our venue, £30 each to give notice.

We've paid £60 notice fees (£30 each) then it's £302 (I think) for the registrar, I'm not sure how much the marriage certificate will be. ililacit that is extortionate x

Oh my god, I can't beleive how much of a rip off registrars are!!

We haven't decided on our venue yet so I haven't looked up registrars fees in that area but I'm just going to assume they're going to be stupid prices like my current council's ones are.

This is ridiculous, it's not as if the registrar actually does much for goodness sakes!

I have just seen this thread so thought I would give the local registrar a quick call to check fees (apparently I can't book until a year till the date) and they just told me it would be £423!!!!!!!!! I budgeted £200 and that I thought was being generous.

I'm quite shocked by that - especially as I have just been told that someone who got married in the registry office paid approx £100. How can they justify all that money?!

Wow guess i owe my dads friend a huge thankyou!! as he's going to be our registrar at my local church for free!! i knew it was a bit pricey but not that much!!

Can no one beat mine then??!! lol.

Just spoke to my friend who is getting married this year, and she confirmed that is the correct amount as she is paying about £570 in total for this year ☹️

We need to pay £33.50 each for notice and marriage license and then £170 to pay for the actual room (which I actually think is an awful lot for quite a small room but it is very nice.)

We paid £25 then £60 for notices and now have to £413.50. I would love to know what this is for!

I think the response to the extra expense is that they are blocking out lots of time to attend and could be doing others in that time..? not sure its much of a justification .. an extra £300+ in a lot of cases

I was reconsidering changing to the registry office instead, but then you have to worry and work out and cost for transport then!! etc for everyone its just not going to save anything.

but i think its alot of money, and can't see the justification. I was horrified at our £400+ price plus the bans etc.

Ours is £760 but were getting married on new years eve lol xx

Same here: £354 plus notices and we thought it was huge!

Our registrar fees are £540 plus £67 for the bands & £3.50 for each certificate!! Nice to know I'm one of the dearest then lol! That's the fees for all Kent registrars.

We are getting married in Medway rather than in Kent (previously I thought Medway was in Kent but apparently not for weddings!!). We are getting married on a Sunday and we are paying £500 for the registrar plus about £70 for the notices and £3.50 for the marriage certificate.

I am shocked that the variation is so vast.

Mines extortionate! 525 for registrar in hotel, 60 notices and 7 certificates..

We're getting married in Norfolk & we paid £60 for giving notice & £353.50 for a saturday for the registar to come to our venue. I can't understand why its so expensive

For the notice of marriage it was £75 or £76 (it went up a few days before we did it!), and for the hall, registrars, certificates and everything else it's £300. The cheapest we could have had -for a small office, 15 persons - was £42. We went for the big hall (capacity 100).

Ours doesn't seem to be that expensive now I have read the other posts. We are paying £270.00 for the registrar plus £7.00 for certificate (Lancashire County Council). We had to pay £30 each to register our intent to marriage at our local registry office on top of the above expenses.

Think ours was about 400 plus about 35 each for notices so nearly 500... i was shocked it was so much!

I'll add to my previous reply that had I chosen to get married in France it would have been completely free... [:'(]

But I thought 1) it was too complicated planning a wedding in France and 2) we both met in the UK, have always lived in the UK together so France doesn't mean anything to us as a couple!

Ours just says its £33.50 each n doesnt say anything else ?

Ours is £527 but £30 each and then another £120 NON REFUNDABLE deposit on that! what the actual hell!!