This website covers the churches of  

St Augustine’s, Penarth

Holy Nativity, Penarth
St Dochdwy’s, Llandough

(Click here for All Saints, Penarth)

Weddings

We would be very happy to help you make arrangements for your special day. A wedding can take place in any of our churches as long as you live within the parish or meet one of the other qualifying conditions. Please make initial enquiries with the Parish Administrator.

The law requires that at least one of those to be married should:

• reside in the parish where the wedding is to take place, OR
• be a regular worshipper in the parish and to have your name entered on the church electoral roll, OR
• have a ‘qualifying connection’. A ‘qualifying connection’ as described in the Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 is one of the following:
• you were baptised or confirmed in the parish,
• you or a parent formerly lived for at least six months in the parish,  
• you or a parent formerly habitually attended worship in the parish for at least six months
• a parent or grandparent had been married in the parish.

Visit the Church in Wales website for more details on legal requirements.

Information on Flowers, music & readings

Order of service templates:

Full order of service

Basic template

Simple template 2 hymns

Simple template 3 hymns

BANNS

What are banns?

When you get married in a Church in Wales or Church of England Church,  banns are a legal requirement (unless you marry by licence). Banns are an announcement in church of your intention to marry and a chance for anyone to put forward a reason why the marriage may not lawfully take place. They need to be read in the parish where each of you lives as well as the church in which you are to be married, if that is somewhere else. They must be read in the 3 months before your wedding on 3 Sundays, often in consecutive weeks, but it doesn’t have to be. The minister or responsible person will make a short announcement at the start of or during the service beginning ‘I publish the banns of marriage between…’

Applying for banns & getting your banns certificate

If you live in this Parish but are getting married somewhere else, you will need to fill in a banns application form and send it to our Parish Office. We will check it and let you know when your banns will be read in church.  If you have any questions about this, please contact the Parish Office (Rachel Elder) by email or call 029 20708722.

After your banns have been read three times, you need to collect the Banns Certificate and pay the £40 fee, but we will contact you about this. You need to give the Banns Certificate to the priest who is marrying you - at your wedding rehearsal usually. You may not be able to get married if you don’t present your banns certificate.

 Weddings are now permitted at our churches, with a limited number of guests.

For information please contact the Parish Administrator  029 20708722