Updated: 27 January 2006 - should print out easily for future reference
Bishop Johnathan Blake
B.A. Honours, Dip Pastoral Studies

Thank you for your interest in the service I am offering.  I hope I will be able to answer some of the questions   you may have about weddings and wedding blessings/celebrations.

So much thought and care goes into the arrangements for a wedding but usually the couple have little choice when it comes to the venue and the content of the wedding ceremony. Often they   find that the laws surrounding marriage restrict their hopes and dreams.      What should be one of the highlights of the day remains an unknown, which sometimes turns out well but often leaves the couple and their guests disappointed.     What I offer changes this by giving the couple complete    choice about the venue, content, style, and approach of their wedding ceremony.

There are a number of alternative ways a couple using my services could arrange the legal formalities and I can help explain these further by phone if you have any questions. Here I will describe which are the most commonly chosen methods.

THE ARRANGEMENTS.

EITHER:

THE CONTINENTAL APPROACH; The option that provides the greatest flexibility and choice.

As you may know, in many continental countries It is the normal procedure  in marriage  to  legally register  the marriage  at  the municipal building first and then later that day or on a subsequent day to hold the full wedding ceremony with family and friends In a church or wherever.

When I began my new ministry I made that approach available in this country. Therefore a couple arranging a wedding with me would book in   to visit the Registry Office either on the same day as their planned wedding ceremony or, as most choose, on the day before, or during the week before the ceremony. This leaves their main day uncluttered.

They often attend the Registry Office with two witnesses only, who can be, but don't need to be, known to you, and sometimes no one else even knows this has happened.  At the Registry Office they answer the mandatory legal questions and complete the documents. They do not exchange rings. The whole process is short and without particular significance to the couple. However It Is Important to be clear that the legal wedding takes place here at the Registry Office.

Notwithstanding this, the couple themselves regard their real and true wedding, and the one that most will observe In future years as their anniversary, as the day on which   I take their wedding

Based KENT, England - WORLDWIDE
Bishop Johnathan Blake
Please send all your enquiries, together with your full contact details
and proposed wedding date and location to:
E-mail: info@gershgang.co.uk

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