Weddings

St George's Church is a beautiful place in which to get married.  It is a building which reflects God's glory and is a place of prayer and commitment.

Lisa and Darren wedding August 2009During the summer months especially we have the privilege of holding many marriage services.

While many couples request that they hold their wedding here, there are a number of restrictions.

However if just one of these conditions applies then you are welcome to be married here:

  • one of you was baptised or prepared for confirmation in the parish;
  • one of you has ever lived in the parish for six months or more;
  • one of you has at any time regularly attended public worship in the parish for six months or more at any time before the wedding takes place;
  • one of your parents has lived in the parish for six months or more in your lifetime;
  • one of your parents has regularly attended public worship here for six months or more in your lifetime;
  • your parents or grandparents were married here.
    (All of these refer to Church of England services)

You might like to check whether you live within the parish boundaries. Click here for the boundary map.

 

If you would like to discuss your marriage service with a member of the clergy, please call in to the parish office on a Monday evening between 6.00 and 6.45 when a member of clergy will be available.

 

From The Marriage Service, Pastoral Introduction:

A wedding is one of life's great moments, a time of solemn commitment as well as good wishes, feasting and joy. St John tells us how Jesus shared in such an occasion at Cana, and gave there a sign of new beginnings as he turned water into wine. 

Marriage is intended by God to be a creative relationship, as his blessing enables husband and wife to love and support each other in good times and in bad, and to share in the care and upbringing of children. For Christians, marriage is also an invitation to share life together in the spirit of Jesus Christ. It is based upon a solemn, public and life-long covenant between a man and a woman, declared and celebrated in the presence of God and before witnesses.

 

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13.4-7

 

The full text of the Common Worship Marriage Service can be found at http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/marriage/marriagefront.html

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