Our ceremonies

We know everybody wants something different from their big day, whatever you're looking for you can find it in Wolverhampton.

Please visit Venues and Fees to find the right venue and package for you.

Once you have chosen your venue you will need to arrange for the Registration Service to attend the ceremony, you can read our terms and conditions and request a booking here.

You can check availability and book the appointment online.

If you would like to get in touch with us by telephone, please call us on 01902 551234. Our opening hours are:

The Civil Partnerships (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019, which extend eligibility for forming civil partnerships to opposite sex couples, were approved in Parliament and made on 5 November 2019. A civil partnership is formed when a couple sign a document in the presence of a civil partnership registrar and two witnesses. Couples may choose to hold a ceremony alongside the legal signing. The cost is the same whether you hold a ceremony or choose to just attend with your witnesses to sign the schedule.

Civil partners will enjoy most of the same state pension rights as husbands and wives. Entitlement will further extend to schemes that currently pay survivor benefits to widows and widowers. Equal rights for civil partners will also extend into areas such as childcare and maintenance, property inheritance and life assurance.

In the event of the breakdown of a relationship, the dissolution of a civil partnership can be sought through due legal process. In such circumstances, the court will have the power to deal with any resulting matters of property division or maintenance.

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Conversions to marriage

In 2013 the government implemented the Marriage (same sex couples) Act which has since enabled couples who had entered into a civil partnership to convert their civil partnership into a marriage.

The conversion can take place in Wolverhampton, provided the civil partnership took place within England or Wales.

Once the civil partnership is converted to a marriage the civil partnership ends, and the couple are treated as having been married since the date that they originally entered into their civil partnership.

If you wish to convert your civil partnership into a marriage you have the option of a standard conversion appointment at the register office, or through a two stage procedure where you can have a ceremony at an approved venue of your choice, following the appointment at the register office. The two stages do not need to be completed on the same day.

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If you are planning to marry in a Church of England or Church of Wales, you must first discuss your marriage with the vicar. If he or she is able to marry you then they will advise you on the ceremony, the time scales and the necessary legal requirements including publishing Banns of the marriage, or for the issue of common licence. If your marriage is taking place in a religious building that isn't a Church of England or Wales, then you will need to give formal notice of marriage at your local Register Office once you have arranged your ceremony date.

A naming ceremony is the perfect way to celebrate the birth of a new baby, or the joining of a new family. Naming ceremonies can take place within the register office or at any approved premise within the city; ceremonies can be personalised with poems, readings and personalised promises which can be made by parents, grandparents or chosen friends.

A renewal of vows ceremony is a great way to celebrate your marriage. You can renew your vows at any stage of married life, or as a way to commemorate a special anniversary, such as making it to 5, 10, 25, 50 years or anytime in between. A renewal of vows ceremony is also a great way to celebrate with family and friends after a marriage abroad.