Your Wedding will be conducted by Frances or Malcolm Tyler, who will be available to discuss with you in confidence, any personal or general matters relating to your forthcoming marriage. You will meet three months before the wedding to finalise the arrangements. In the meantime, these are the things you need to be thinking about:-
Music	To be played as you enter the church. To be played as you leave the church. To be played during the signing of the registers.
Hymns	Two or Three to be sung during the service.
Wedding Rings	One or Two.
Lesson Reader	Who you would like if available, to read.
Witnessess	Two people over the age of 18, to sign the registers.
Flowers	To be provided, by us or other florister.
Banns	They are a legal requirement for which you are responsible. They will be called at the 10.00am service, on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sunday of the month before your wedding, unless advised otherwise. You will also need to arrange for them to be called, if one of you lives in another parish, at your local parish church. The fee in 2008 for publishing banns and producing the certificate is £34.
Rehearsal	There will be a rehearsal during the week of your wedding. You will be required to bring any fees payable, in cash at this time.
Fees	In 2008 the cost of a wedding at St. Mary's is £590. We require a non-returnable deposit of £50 within one month of your booking to confirm the date. This fee is inclusive of the cost of, the service, the calling of the Banns,the organ, the bells,the decoration of the church with flowers, a printed order of service on white card and a contribution to the lighting and heating.
Video Recording	There is an additional fee of £55, for the use of video recording equipment in the church, if you or your guests wish to record the service.
Ushers	Their duties are to welcome your guests at church with books, to collect them after the service and to check that the church is left tidy.
Confetti	Please ask your guests to only throw paper confetti. It is available at most newsagents, and is much more environmentally friendly than the metalised type now commonly avaiable.
Parking	Your guests are welcome to use the car park at the Red Lion (next door to the church), but the management ask that they use the top part of the car park or the area furthest away from the entrance.
Marriage Preparation	At St. Mary's we offer a Marriage Preparation Day, for all couples being married in the church. We realise that everyone's marriage is different, and that no-one can be completely prepared for married life, but we hope that you will feel able to come along on a Sunday to join with others being married here, in thinking; about marriage. It will be very informal and no-one will be expected to answer any awkward or embarrassing questions. You will be given details of the course, closer to the date of your wedding.
The people of St.Mary's warmly welcome you to your parish church, and any of our services. Remember it is as much your church as ours and we will try to make you feel at home, without smothering you.
You can contact the Clergy for further discussion by telephone: (024) 7661 5152 or the Parish Office (024) 7661 8845 or during Parish Office hour Monday's at 7.00pm.