If you or your fiancé live in St James parish and are getting married in a Church of England church elsewhere, your banns of marriage will usually need to be called at St James’.
We will arrange for your banns to be called and for a banns certificate to be issued. Please telephone Janet Goymer on 020 8804 3823 for more details.
Your banns will normally be called at the end of the 10am Sunday Service on three consecutive Sundays two months before your wedding. Getting married at St James’You can legally be married at St James’ if you or your fiancé live in the parish or if one of you is a member of St James’ Church.
To become a member you need to have been baptised and to have worshipped with us regularly for six months in order to have your name added to the church electoral roll (our official membership list).
Please telephone The Revd Jeremy Foot on 020 8804 3823 or see the Vicar after the 10:00 service on any Sunday.
Wedding Fees 2011
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| Publication of Banns of Marriage |
£27.00 |
| Marriage Service |
£262.00 |
| Marriage Certificate |
£3.50 |
| Verger |
£40.00 |
| Administration |
£150.00 |
| Lighting, heating, cleaning and maintenance |
£107.50 |
| Bell ringing |
FOC |
| Two pedestal flower arrangements in your colour scheme included!! |
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| Total cost |
£590.00 |
Deposit on Booking (this is non-refundable in the event of cancellation) £100 Final Payment (we require the balance of your payment 3 months prior to the date of your wedding) £490.00. Please make cheques payable to “St James’ Church PCC”.
COUNTDOWN TO WEDDING DAY
At Least six months to go…
- Contact the Parish Office to fill in a Banns Application. Pay £100 deposit to St James’ PCC. (Until your deposit is paid your wedding date cannot be confirmed and may be taken by another couple.)
- If applicable, contact the church in other place of residency to have Banns read there.
- You will be invited to an initial planning & preparation session at the beginning of the year of your wedding.
4 months prior to wedding date
- Contact Parish Office to make an appointment to see the vicar within the next few weeks to discuss the order of service.
3 months prior to wedding date
- See vicar for second meeting
2 months prior to wedding date
- Your banns will be read for the first 3 Sundays two months preceding your wedding, at the 10:00 service. You are expected to attend.
The week before
- Wedding rehearsal in the church with wedding party.
Your wedding day
In recent years the eligibilty for marriage in the parish church has been relaxed a little so that if one of you can demonstrate a prior connection with the parish or the church through parents or through having lived in the parish at some stage in the past, then it may well be possible to marry here. Please do contact the Vicar if you think this might be the case and we can look into it for you.
Details of the church records for marriages are found by clicking on the link below
CHURCH RECORDS
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