Why doesn’t the Church want us to get married?
From our UK edition
I got married last year and was shocked to find that it would be more than three times as expensive to get married in the church as it would be in the town hall. There will be many people that can pay the extra cost. But others cannot: the young, the poor, those without the help of parents, a price like this could turn them all away. I had naively assumed that because the church, unlike the local registrar, has a history of being vociferously pro marriage it would translate into lower barriers to entry. Apparently not. Most people have no idea what General Synod – the national assembly for the Church of England – is. The Church's parliament, of which there are 483 members, considers and approves legislation across the Church of England.
