Help needed - Outdoor Christian Wedding

Hiya all!

My partner and I have recently got engaged and now thinking about the wedding.

We live in the UK and will get married here, so I would appreciate advice and help for the UK please.

We have decided that we would like a Christian wedding, but for it to be held outdoors. Is this possible?

I've been told that some non-denominationals will do this, but I have no idea how to go about finding out more info.

Under UK, if you want to get married in a hotel, park, stately home, etc, you can not have any scripture reading, prayers, hymns, etc. Therefore, it is purely a civil wedding.

Anyway, does anyone know if it is possible to have a Christian wedding outdoors? (which will be legal and will mean that we are actually married!!).

Thanks in advance.

I think that it will depend greatly on denomination and even more the personal feelings of the "minister of religion" who marries you

Also, are you in Scotland or England/NI/Wales as the laws are different

I would say if you are in a Church then your first port of call would be your pastor/minister and if your not then think about what denom you would like to marry you and start of by speaking to them

the minister will have a pretty good hold of what is legal and if they don't then they WILL know where to go to find out

Congratulations by the way

God Bless

Jay

Thanks Jay

We're in England, and would get married here too.

Thought I'd ask on a few forums to see if other Christians have wanted to get married outdoors before having to make a load of phone calls/visits to local churches!

Thanks for your help.

I don't think it's possible to have a wedding outdoors in the UK yet. I think the law currently requires that weddings take place in a building that is registered for marriages...so a church or other registered venue (some hotels, stately homes, castles, etc).

I heard that this law was changing so that it was just the officiant that was registered and the ceremony could then take place outside but I don't think those changes have been implemented yet.

Currently the way to have a legal wedding and an outdoors ceremony is to have the legal wedding ceremony separate to the wedding ceremony you really want. For example, you could have a legal wedding in the local register office with just you, your fiance and two witnesses and then have your outdoor Christian ceremony a couple of days afterwards. The outdoors bit then won't be a legal ceremony but can be the ceremony you really want with the legal bit already taken care of.