Wedding licence.

It was £70.00 to give notice and £470.00 ish for them to attend on the day.

£35 is for giving notice then you will have to pay extra for them on the day. The price for this will vary from county to county.

We needed to book both of these separately so that's probably why you've only been told to take £70.

Thing is from looking on my towns site its £370 for a registar to go out and conduct the cermony, but we allready have someone to do that.

See we are getting married in the Salvation Army church so the major is doing it, she just needs someone offical there to make sure she does it right.

Would that still come under the £300 odd that it states as we dont need them to actually do the cermony?

You will most likely have to still pay the standard fee as a minister will still be there using his/her time, and will need to be paid for that, but no harm in asking if theres a discount on the basis that they won't actually be conducting the ceremony.

We asked if a deacon in the family could conduct a nion religious civil ceremony for us, we were told that we would still have to have a registrar there and still pay the full price even if they didnt conduct the ceremony.

Yes, I would have thought you would have to pay the full amount regardless.

We paid £70 to give notice then £350 for the registrar.

Is this the same if you get married in a church with a priest??

I found out today that its going to cost us £375 just for them to stand there, But of a joke if you ask me.

No, the priest/vicar is legally allowed to marry you and effectively is the registrar.

But it has to be legal and a salvation army major isnt legally able to perform the ceremony. Its not really that much when you consider that this is the bit that means you are actually married, the most important bit of the whole day!

Phew! I hadn't even thought about any extra cost for that. Thanks x

It depends on what denomination the church is. Church of England Priests are legally given the same power as the registrar to conduct and oversee the legalities of the ceremony. Some other churches don't have the same power which is why I assume the OP is having to pay for the registrar as well.

Yes, it's only Church of England vicars who (as you say) have the legal power to 'be' the registrar and marry you. I don't know about the Catholic church.

For all other denominations (eg Salvation Army, Methodist, Baptist etc), the minister will conduct the ceremony but there must be an official registrar from the council, OR an 'authorised person' from the church present to make it legal. Quite a lot of churches have their own official 'authorised person' who is authorised by the registrar to oversee weddings but usually just in that church building, or if necessary in other churches in the same registration district. They are usually just a volunteer who is a member of the church.

So if your church doesn't have an authorised person, you will have to pay the full fee for the registrar to come out.

We are getting married in a Baptist church, but they do have their own authorised person, who will act as registrar for our wedding - it's included in the fee we're paying to the church.

Hope that makes sense!