Please allow extra time to travel to your appointment due to road closures on the A14, restrictions on the Orwell bridge and various road works throughout the County.
If you arrive late for your appointment, it will be rescheduled.
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 |
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Ipswich, Stowmarket, Sudbury, Lowestoft
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Monday - Friday |
Saturday morning |
Saturday afternoon |
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1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 |
£400 |
£420
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£560 |
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1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 |
£410 |
£430 |
£576 |
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Woodbridge |
Monday - Friday |
Saturday morning |
Saturday afternoon |
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1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 |
£375 |
£395 |
N/a |
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1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 |
£386 |
£406 |
N/a |
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Abbeygate Room Bury St Edmunds |
Monday to Friday
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Saturday morning |
Saturday afternoon |
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1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 |
£430 |
£450
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£560 |
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1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 |
£440 |
£460
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£576 |
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Statutory ceremony (legal wording only + 2 witnesses) |
£56 |
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Approved Venues 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 |
Outside ceremony |
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Monday to Friday |
£630 |
+ £100 |
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Saturday |
£660 |
+ £100 |
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Sundays, Bank Holidays, Monday - Friday after 5pm |
£740 |
+ £100 |
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Approved Venues 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 |
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Monday to Friday |
£656 |
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Saturday |
£690 |
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Sundays, Bank Holidays, Monday- Friday after 5pm |
£770 |
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Combined Legal and Celebration Package 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 (unlicensed venues & at home) |
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Monday to Friday |
£800 |
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Saturday |
£900 |
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Sunday |
£1000 |
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Combined Legal and Celebration Package 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 (unlicensed venues & at home) |
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Monday to Friday |
£830 |
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Saturday |
£936 |
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Sunday |
£1036 |
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Special circumstances and other fees |
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Animal attendance per animal (excluding assistance pets) |
£40 |
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| Completion of passport advance change of name form (PD2) | £20 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Alteration to a ceremony date/time | £40 |
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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 |
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Taking a Notice of marriage/Civil Partnership at a designated office, where one or both parties are subject to immigration control |
£57 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Attending the residence of a housebound person to take Notice of marriage/Civil Partnership |
£57 |
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Attending the residence of a detained person to take Notice of marriage/Civil Partnership |
£82 |
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Application for a reduction in the 28 day waiting period |
£66 |
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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 |
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Issuing a standard certificate of birth, death, marriage or civil partnership, including 2nd class postage |
£12.50 |
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Issuing a short certificate of birth, including postage |
£12.50 |
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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 |
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International post or guaranteed next working day delivery |
£9 |
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Any certificates issued for still births, deaths for babies, children and young people under the age of 18 years |
Free of charge |
General Search |
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A search of the indexes (by appointment only and for no more than 6 concurrent hours) |
£20 |
Service |
Fee |
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Forename amended within 12 months of birth registration |
£44 |
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Consideration by Registrar / Superintendent Registrar of a correction application |
£83 |
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Consideration by the Registrar General of a correction application |
£99 |
Service - venue licence for marriages and civil partnerships |
Fee |
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Approval of a venue for marriages and civil partnerships - 3 years licence |
£2000 |
Service - registration of buildings for religious worship, marriage and civil partnership |
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Certification of a place of meeting for religious worship |
£32 |
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Registration of a building for the solemnization of marriages between an opposite sex couple |
£136 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Joint application for the registration of a building for the marriage of opposite and same sex couples |
£136 |
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