Wedding arrangements for St. James' may be made by contacting the Vicar (see Contacts)

We reserve our right at both churches only to marry those who have not been previously married or have been widowed.

 

Notes about your Wedding Day

You will find the following practical points helpful in the planning of your wedding day:

1.  Church fees cover all aspects of the marriage service in church, including you wedding certificate, flowers, heating and lighting, clergy fee, organist's fee and verger's fee.                  

This year's fee is £445, but for 2012 it may be slightly more. If you haven't already done so please pay at the rehearsal.  Cash or a cheque made payable to: St. Paul's Hasland Parochial Church Council.                                                                   

2.  If you require members of our choir for your day, please let me know well in advance. The fee is £13 per person payable on the day depending on the number of singers available.

3.  Please arrange for the bride to be at church no later than 15 minutes before the service begins, to give time for photographs on her arrival.  

4.  Should the service begin late we reserve the right to omit hymns, since there may be a wedding service following yours. If there is a wedding on the same day, 90 minutes are allowed between one wedding starting and the start of the next.

5. Please have as many photographs taken and video recordings as you please before and after the service. We do not permit photographs or videos during the service, except for your photographer who may photograph AFTER you have signed the registers. 

 

6.  Please try to have your hymns chosen before the day of your rehearsal. If you have any special musical requests we need to know them well in advance and will do our best to comply. Please remember this is not Westminster Abbey!

 

7. There will be a large flower arrangement and two smaller, which are included in your fees. Any more should be by arrangement (pardon the pun!) with Fr. Malcolm.

 

8.  There is no car park I am afraid. Parking is along the main road and along Churchside Lane as far as the No Entry notice, beyond which the land is private.

 

9.  Should you have any queries please contact me, Fr. Malcolm Ainscough,  at the above address. 

 

10. A Christian marriage is ideally between two baptised people, however, the Bishop   allows us to marry two people is only one of them is baptised. I will not baptise people in order to for them to be married in church.

 

11. If you don't live in Hasland or Grassmoor and have no connection with this parish you must have your banns read out in the parish church nearest to where you live. When banns are read in church your name and the parish where you live will be read out and anybody who knows any reason in law why you cannot marry must tell the priest at that church. You will be issued with a banns certificate from the priest at that church after he has read your banns three times over three weeks. You must bring a banns certificate to St Paul's no later than the day of your rehearsal. The certificate will cost you £31 .If you are getting married here the cost of the banns certificate is included in the wedding fee.

 

12.It is wise to attend church on the Sundays your banns are to be read in order to make sure that they are being read. I would suggest you attend at least the last reading of the banns so that you can collect the banns certificate.

 

13.At the beginning of the year in which you are to be married you will be invited to a meeting in church when we can talk about your wedding. At the meeting we will arrange a date of the wedding rehearsal which usually takes place a few days before the ceremony.

 

14.To secure the booking of your wedding we ask for a £100 deposit which will be deducted from the final cost of the fees.

 

15.If for any reason you wedding has to be cancelled or postponed please inform the church in writing. Unless you do this we will be unable to return your £100 deposit.

 

16. Please try to attend St Paul's Church at least once before your wedding day to see what the church is like in action during a service.

 

All this assumes that you have thought long and hard about marriage and are certain that this lifelong commitment is what you both want.