civic ceremony

[mirela]

i have read about civic wedding is the quickest and easy way to get married. only takes 20 mins. does anyone know if going for this kind of small ceremony, what does the bride to wear and also which kind of cloth the witnesses to wear?

[dot.hawkes]

The civic ceremony is a legal ceremony only, and depending on the venue you select it is pretty much anything goes.
Some people get married in diving gear under water!! It depends on whether you want to stay traditional and have bridesmaids and a best man etc, which means the bestman and chief brodesmaid are the witnesses that sign the register, or whether you have a favourite hobby that you can bring into it, like Star Trek, Country & Western, football etc, it depends on the venue as any hotel will pretty much accomodate any theme if you are paying their prices, except maybe a naturist theme, the you might have to go to a specific naturist resort.

[mirela]

i meant just going to the registration office and vote and register?

[mrs_overall]

You've lost me with the comment about registration office and vote.
If you're referring to a marriage at the Registrar's office - yes, it is a shorter ceremony than a church wedding. You can wear whatever you want. I've been to a wedding where the bride & groom wore matching jeans & t-shirts, another where the bride & groom dressed as Goths and a recent wedding where the bride & groom wore the full monty - meringue dress, top hat & tails etc.

[mirela]

ahh, thank you mrsoverall,yeah, i meant registrar's office.

[banned-dot]

sorry my first reply is temporarily zapped, what do you mean by vote? I too am flumoxed with that one. You have to go to the register office to make an appointment to arrange a date and prove you are both free legally to marry in that register office.
There isn's any voting involved!

[mirela]

how come u been banned dot? yeah, just ignore the voting thing, i dont really know about the marriage procedure here at all. i just meant registrar office, what people need wear at the day of ur appointment.

[I Love Snow]

You wear what you want for both the appointment and on your wedding day. I wore my jeans to the first appointment and a full bridal dress and hubbie wore his kilt. We had 3 bridesmaids and a page boy. You can wear what you want and have who you want. We pick the registars office as we are different religons and neither one of us practice them.

[mirela]

ok cheers