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Civil partnerships

You can book your ceremony/registration as far ahead as you wish but it is not possible to give notice more than 12 months in advance of your chosen date.

A non-refundable/non-transferable booking fee must be paid when you book to secure a date and time.

If you have to postpone or cancel your arrangements please let us know as soon as possible. You will have to pay an amendment fee.

The full amount (after the booking fee) must be paid four weeks before the ceremony

You will be given a date by which notice should be given.

If notice is not given by this date your booking will be cancelled.

A civil partnership can not take place until 28 clear days after you have given the notice.

Civil partnership registrations, without a ceremony are available at the register office every Tuesday from 2pm to 4:30 p.m. (except bank holidays) and this costs £46.

Ceremony fees for Stoke Town Hall
   Queen Elizabeth II Room (holds up to 60 guests plus the couple and a photographer)
 Friday  £252
 Saturday  £282
 Additional fee for ceremonies from 6pm onwards  £250

 

Cost of registrar to conduct ceremonies at an approved premises (balance payable four weeks in advance)
 Monday to Friday  £446
 Saturday  £481
 Sundays and bank holidays  £552
 Additional fee for ceremonies from 6 pm onwards  £250
 
Housebound and detained civil partnership ceremonies
 Housebound notice (plus notice fee of £35 or £47)  £57 per person
 Detained notice (plus notice fee of £35 or £47)  £82 per person 
 Attendance by a registrar at a housebound ceremony  £98
 Attendance by a superintendent registrar at a housebound ceremony  £101
 Attendance by a registrar at a detained ceremony  £106
 Attendance by superintendent registrar at a detained ceremony  £113
 
Booking fees
 Civil partnership at the register office  £38
 Civil partnership/conversion of civil partnership to marriage stage two ceremony at Stoke Town Hall  £90
 Civil partnership/conversion of civil partnership to marriage stage two ceremony at an approved premises  £90
 Amendment fee  £32