Church Marriages are So Old Fashioned

WeddingChaos.co.uk has conducted a survey of over 1,200 people to find out where they will get married.

(PRWEB) August 25, 2006 -- WeddingChaos.co.uk has conducted a survey of over 1,200 people to find out where they will get married.

Two years ago the Anglican Church, concerned about their falling numbers, debated whether to relax their current rules for church weddings, which stipulate that the bride or groom must live or worship in the parish before they can marry in the church. Moreover, with no agreement yet reached by the church on this issue, the rules remain unchanged, and the erosion in the numbers of church weddings continues. However, there are still many who want to continue with tradition; bride to be, Beverly Spencer, intends to buck the trend, Beverly and her husband to be will be "getting married in church because we are both devout Catholics."

Yet the decline in church weddings has been a boost to licensed venues, with 26% of couples -- up from only 5% in 1996 -- now choosing to have a Civil Wedding in one of thousands of licensed venues throughout the UK.

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