Suffolk Registration Service fees

Fees for marriages, civil partnerships, celebration and renewal of vows ceremonies, including payment methods.

Our offices can accept payment by cash and debit/credit card.

Online payments for ceremonies and ceremony balance payments are not currently available online. In the meantime, please contact us to pay your balance of fees. We will get this service reinstated as soon as possible and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

We regret we are unable to accept cheques or postal orders.

Local Authority ceremony rooms	Traditional Ceremony	Enhanced ceremony
Ipswich, Stowmarket, Sudbury, Lowestoft	Monday - Friday & Saturday morning	Saturday afternoon only
1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025	£375	£495
1 April 2026 to 31 March 2026	£400	£560
Woodbridge	Monday - Friday & Saturday morning	Saturday afternoon only
1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025	£375	N/a
1 April 2026 to 31 March 2026	£375	N/a
Abbeygate Room Bury St Edmunds	Monday to Friday & Saturday morning	Saturday afternoon only
1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025	£400	£495
1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026	£430	£560

Statutory ceremony (legal wording only + 2 witnesses)	£56
Approved Venues 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025		Outside ceremony
Monday to Saturday (8am to 5pm)	£595	+£100
Monday to Saturday (5pm to 8pm)	£695	+£100
Sundays and Bank Holidays (8am to 5pm)	£695	+£100
Sundays and Bank Holidays (5pm to 8pm)	£750	+£100
Approved Venues 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026
Monday to Saturday (8am to 5pm)	£630	+£100
Monday to Saturday (5pm to 8pm)	£740	+£100
Sundays and Bank Holidays (8am to 5pm)	£740	+£100
Sundays and Bank Holidays (5pm to 8pm)	£POA
Combined Legal and Celebration Package 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 (unlicensed venues & at home)
Monday to Saturday (8am to 5pm) (£580 of this fee includes VAT, £120 does not include VAT)	£700
Sundays and Bank Holidays (8am to 5pm) (£680 of this fee includes VAT, £120 does not include VAT)	£800
Combined Legal and Celebration Package 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 (unlicensed venues & at home)
Monday to Friday before 5pm	£800
Monday to Friday after 5pm	£900
Saturday before 5pm	£9000
Saturday after 5pm	£1000
Sundays & Bank holidays	£1000

Special circumstances and other fees
Additional inspection fee if your chosen venue for a renewal of vows or bespoke celebration ceremony is not an approved venue	£100
Animal attendance per animal (excluding assistance pets)	£40
Completion of passport advance change of name form (PD2)	£18
Attending a marriage/Civil Partnership at the residence of a housebound	£199
Attending a marriage/Civil Partnership at the residence of a detained person	£219
Attending a marriage on the issue of a Registrar General's Licence (where one of the parties is seriously ill, cannot be moved and is not expected to recover)	£18
Attending a marriage at a registered building (typically a church/chapel without their own authorised person)	£104

Service	Fee
Taking a standard Notice of marriage/Civil Partnership at your local registration office, where neither party to the proposed marriage is subject to immigration control	£42
Taking a Notice of marriage/Civil Partnership at a designated office, where one or both parties are subject to immigration control	£57
Taking a Notice of marriage at a local registration office for a certificate of no impediment (CONI) for a marriage abroad (British citizens only)	£42
Taking a Notice of Civil Partnership at a local registration office for a certificate of no impediment (CONI) for a Civil Partnership abroad (British citizens only)	£38.50
Attending the residence of a housebound person to take Notice of marriage/Civil Partnership	£57
Attending the residence of a detained person to take Notice of marriage/Civil Partnership	£82
Application for a reduction in the 28 day waiting period	£66
Letter provided by the Registrar General confirming that, on the basis of information provided, no record of a marriage or civil partnership in England and Wales has been found within a 10 year search period	£50 per 10 year search from 1 November 2017
Consideration by a Superintendent Registrar of a divorce/Civil Partnership dissolution obtained outside of the British Isles	£55
Consideration by the Registrar General of a divorce/Civil Partnership dissolution obtained outside of the British Isles	£83

Service	Fee
Issuing a standard certificate of birth, death, marriage or civil partnership, including 2nd class postage	£12.50
Issuing a short certificate of birth, including postage	£12.50
Priority service certificates, if ordered before 3pm we aim to despatch the same working day, subject to postal collections (fee is per certificate ordered)	£38.50
International post or guaranteed next working day delivery	£9
Any certificates issued for still births, deaths for babies, children and young people under the age of 18 years	FOC
General Search
A search of the indexes (by appointment only and for no more than 6 concurrent hours)	£20

Service - venue licence for marriages and civil partnerships	Fee
Approval of a venue for marriages and civil partnerships - 3 years licence	£2000
Service - registration of buildings for religious worship, marriage and civil partnership
Certification of a place of meeting for religious worship	£32
Registration of a building for the solemnization of marriages between an opposite sex couple	£136
Registration of a building for the solemnization of marriages of same sex couples (building previously registered for the solemnisation of marriage between an opposite sex couple)	£71
Registration of a building for the solemnization of marriages of same sex couples (building not previously registered for the solemnisation of marriage between an opposite sex couple)	£136
Registration of a building for the solemnization of marriages of an opposite sex couple (building previously registered for the solemnisation of marriage between same sex couples)	£71
Joint application for the registration of a building for the marriage of opposite and same sex couples	£136

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Service	Fee
Forename amended within 12 months of birth registration	£44
Consideration by Registrar / Superintendent Registrar of a correction application	£83
Consideration by the Registrar General of a correction application	£99

Suffolk Registration Service fees

Ceremony fees for Marriages, Civil Partnerships and celebration ceremonies

Fees for Notice of Marriage and Notice of Civil Partnership (Legal Preliminaries)

Certificates fees

Fees for corrections to initial registration

Licensing fees for approved premises and places of worship

Privacy notice