Marrage in an english church

[shatterstone]

Me and my fiancé are getting married early next year and wondered if there would be any problems with her marrying in an english church as she is chinese and i am english. Has anybody any advice on this issue? am new to the forums please help!

[chens7]

I attended my cousin's wedding about 5 years ago. Both her and her husband are Chinese although they were raised (for the most part) in America. They had the actual wedding at a church and then a chinese-style reception afterwards. She even switched from an old fashioned wedding dress to a qipao in the middle of the reception. BTW congratulations !

[smalldog]

Congratulations! I don't think there should be any problem. The Home Office introduced regulations earlier this year requiring foreign nationals to get special approval before getting married, but I think that only apply to civil weddings, not those in the Anglican church.

http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/news/press_releases/getting_married_in/new_rules_for_getting.html

[johnmck]

but I think that only apply to civil weddings, not those in the Anglican church.

Different countries do religous weddings differently. In France you must first get married at the town hall (the civil wedding) before you have a second marriage at the church (the christian wedding). In the UK the civil wedding and the christain wedding are done together in the church, the words required but the civil marriage are included in the religous marriage. Hence the church wedding is also the civil wedding and I would assume the legal rules are the same.

It is probably best if you go to see your local priest or vicar and ask him, he should know all the legal requirements.

John

[owen]

Rather off topic but i read recently that it's becoming very fashionable in Japan to hire any whitey to pretend to be a priest and give 'western weddings' for like 100US a pop.

I wonder if the same thing could happen in china.