Council restarts notices of marriage and civil partnerships

This article follows a similar one yesterday about registration of births.

Cheshire East Council has restarted appointments for notices of marriage and civil partnerships.

Restrictions introduced at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown had meant most registration services had to be suspended.

These restrictions were recently relaxed allowing the council's registration team to offer appointments now to register notices of marriage or civil partnership.

By law, face-to-face appointments are needed and measures have been put in place to help keep customers and registration staff safe. These include provision of hand sanitiser and rooms that allow space for social distancing.

Registration service offices remain closed to the public -- except those attending appointments. You should not visit the register office for an appointment if you, or someone in your household, has a high temperature, a new, continuous cough, a loss of, or change to, sense of smell or taste -- or if anyone in your household is self-isolating and/or currently shielding.

The registration team will continue to register deaths and births as well as notices of weddings or civil partnership.

Restrictions on weddings have not yet been lifted and understandably there have been an unprecedented number of enquiries about weddings/civil partnerships.

Cllr Rhodes added: "Cheshire East has an array of idyllic rural landscapes and picturesque historic towns and, with more than 60 approved premises venues, and our ceremony rooms in Crewe and Macclesfield, you are sure to find a setting that is perfect for you."

If you already have a booking for a ceremony with the council, our ceremonies team will contact you to arrange your notice of marriage/civil partnership appointment.

These appointments will be booked depending on when your ceremony is due to take place -- so the earlier your ceremony date, the sooner the team will contact you.

Initial appointments will be for couples with a ceremony booked before 31 August 2020.

If you live in Cheshire East and are getting married/having a civil partnership in another registration district before 31 August 2020, please email: ceremonysupport@cheshireeast.gov.uk and include your names, the date and time of the ceremony and your contact details. The registration service's ceremony team will then get in touch to arrange a notice of marriage/civil partnership appointment.

The council is reviewing services on an ongoing basis and regular updates will be provided on the marriages stock image