Can you get married online in the UK?

Marriage law in England and Wales requires a ceremony in an authorised location, with an authorised person or registrar present and two witnesses. Remote and video ceremonies do not meet that requirement, and a temporary change made during the pandemic did not alter it.

Some overseas jurisdictions market online or video weddings to UK residents. Whether such a marriage would be recognised here is a genuinely complex legal question that depends on the jurisdiction and your circumstances — it is not something to assume, and it is worth proper legal advice before spending money on it.

Two things. First, giving notice: you each attend the register office for the district where you live, with your documents. Second, the ceremony itself, at a register office, approved premises or a registered religious building.

That is it. Everything else — reading the requirements, choosing a route and setting, working out your earliest legal date, checking fees, booking appointments, ordering a certificate afterwards — can be handled from home.

Most councils let you request notice appointments and check ceremony availability online, and publish their fee lists as a web page or PDF. GOV.UK sets out the national requirements and the certificate ordering service.

The friction is not that these things are offline. It is that the answer to "what do we actually do, in what order, by when" is spread across GOV.UK, a county registration service and two different council sites — and none of them knows your circumstances.

That is the gap we fill. The free 60-second check tells you which legal route applies to you, how long your notice wait is, and which register office district covers each of you.

The £29 Marriage Plan turns that into a dated sequence: what to do when, the documents each stage needs, indicative statutory fees, and the official page for every step. Google gives you articles. This gives you your plan.