The Weddings Online Ceremony Planner has Changed
In March 2021, the popular online wedding Ceremony Planner, available through yourchurchwedding.org, changed format - this article explains.
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Generation Y still hope to walk down the aisle
This news item was issued by the Church of England on April 12th 2018: Generation Y still hope to walk down the aisle
Celebrating weddings that are to come
A couple of years ago I was with a church who had built up a very significant wedding ministry. Once a year, they invited all the couples who had booked to be married in that year or the next to come to a special service.
Being mindful of step-children
When a good friend got engaged, her fiance's five-year-old son turned and asked his father, "Will you still be my dad when you get married? Where will you live? Will that be my home?" This provided his father and future stepmother with a mile-wide opportunity to reassure him and...
Ready-made marriage prep
The latest estimate of the cost of relationship breakdown in the UK is 51bn per annum according to The Relationships Foundation. That is in excess of the current total UK defence spending figure!
Supporting deaf couples and guests with a BSL interpreter
British Sign Language is Britain's fourth indigenous language, used by Deaf and hearing members of the Deaf community.
Wedding talk
Recently, I took my first family wedding when my 'niece-by-marriage' married in St. Bartholomew's, Nympsfield, a beautiful listed church in Gloucestershire. It was the first in the next generation, so we were all just a little bit excited with hats, cameras and tissues at the ready.
Supporting couples financially
The average cost of a wedding in the UK is somewhere between £17,000 and £24,000. Estimates differ depending on the source, but they all settle somewhere close to the £20,000 mark. For most people this will seem an extremely daunting figure. So what role is there for local churches in supporting...
