Civil Wedding query

[Busa82]

Does anyone know if you can omit vows entirely in a civil ceremony? From what I've seen online the words that make a marriage legal are the no lawful impediment and I take thee as my lawful, wedded husband bits. Am I right to assume this means you can restrict your wedding to these parts, swerve the public lovey dovey bits but still be legal?

We have just put the book in for the spoken bits today. Nowhere near the lovey dovey stuff, but a choice of wording. Can't remember the actual wording, as the book had to be handed in, but it was fine, honestly. Contact your local registry office...they may have it online. Not sure if different areas do it differently.

Yes you can skip the vows. Vows and rings were noted as optional in our information.

You basically have to say enough to confirm that you are free to marry and willingly consent to marrying X person.

You don't have to say anything lovey-dovey if you don't want to

Yep we had a civil ceremony at the register office at 9am with just our respective sisters as witnesses. No rings or vows, we wore jeans & tshirt (I transferred Bride & Groom onto ours )

It took longer for them to fill in the register then the actual legal marriage.

We did it that way as we had a full on wedding later that day on a farm with a celebrant which was amazing, i guess it's a bit like buying a house, the legal bit was exchanging contracts & the fun bit we shared with every one was completing & collecting the keys

www.haringey.gov.uk/births-death-and-marriages/marriages-and-civil-partnerships/personalising-your-ceremony/ceremony-scripts-and-words should give you a good starting point.