Calling Your Banns
The “calling” of your banns of marriage involves reading out your intention to be married in church and provides the opportunity for anyone who knows a legal reason why you should not marry to declare it to the minister.
We must “call” your banns on three occasions during one of our Sunday worship services. This normally takes place two months prior to your wedding date on the first three Sundays of the month at our 10.30am service at St James' Church. Please inform us if you worship regularly at one of our other Sunday services and we will call your banns at that service as well.
Please note that banns must also be called in any other parish in which either the Bride or Groom resides or is on the Electoral Roll. While we try to be as helpful as we can, it is not possible for us to organise this for you and so you are responsible for organising banns to be read in all other churches. What we can do is point you in the right direction!
You will need to:
- contact your local Parish Church and complete an application form for Banns of Marriage.
- Collect a Banns of Marriage Certificate from those churches once your banns have been read. A charge will be made by that church.
- Send this Banns of Marriage Certificate to us immediately.
Legally we cannot marry you until we receive this certificate, so it is really important that you organise this well in advance of your wedding.
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