Guides

Four short pieces about reading this list — what the legal category covers, what the dates mean, and how to check a venue before you count on it.

• What "approved premises" actually means

  The legal category this whole site is a list of — what is in it, what is not, and why.

• Why a past date is not a refusal

  A third of the official list shows a date that has already gone. Here is what that does and does not mean.

• Getting married in a register office or town hall

  The civic option: what these buildings are, and how to find the ones near you.

• How to confirm a venue can hold your ceremony

  The list is a snapshot, not a live register. Two questions settle it.

They deliberately stop where this site's knowledge stops. Nothing here covers what a ceremony costs or how a particular council runs its diary — that is 175 different answers that change without notice. How the list is put together.