Another guest post from the Weddings Team at the Law Commission on the proposals for the reform of weddings law in England & Wales.

Introduction

On 3 September 2020, we published our consultation paper Getting Married: A Consultation Paper on Weddings Law. The full paper together with a shorter summary and further details about the project are available on our webpage here. In the consultation paper, we propose an entirely new scheme of weddings law. Our provisionally proposed scheme could be described as an officiant scheme, which would replace the current buildings-based approach. It would govern all weddings, including religious and civil wedding ceremonies (and, if permitted, weddings conducted by non-religious belief organisations and/or independent celebrants).

In this second blog, we highlight elements of our scheme that are of particular relevance to non-Anglican religious groups (having already discussed the proposals most relevant to Anglicans in a blog posted on 11 October 2020).