2 Couples can get married in the church of the Church of England parish where either bride or groom lives. If they are active, worshipping members of another congregation, it is usually possible to be married there.

If you wish to marry in a church that is not local to either of you, you will have to go on the electoral roll of that parish having attended services there six months beforehand. In certain circumstances you can apply for a Special Licence.

If you are decided on a church ceremony, see your parish priest as soon as possible to discuss a preferred date.

Some ministers may be willing to conduct a marriage in church if one or both of you are divorced, but speak to your parish priest before setting a date.

If it is not possible to be married in church, your priest may consider other alternatives, such as a Service of Prayer and Dedication after a civil ceremony.

The normal preliminary to a Church of England wedding is by banns, which must be read in church for three Sundays in the three months before the wedding.

They need to be read in the parish where each of you lives and at the church where you are to be married if it is another parish.

If you are both Catholic, the reading of the banns is as normal but they do not form part of the legal preliminaries.

If only one of you is Catholic, banns are not published and the priest will have to give permission for the marriage to take place.

The legal requirements for a Catholic wedding are the same as civil marriages. but if the church is in a different registration district to where you live, you need to prove to the superintendent registrar that the church is your normal place of worship. The Catholic church does not recognise a civil divorce.

The only way to divorce within the Church is to receive an annulment.

A limited number of priests are willing to offer a church blessing to a couple if one of them is divorced, especially if they are both regular churchgoers.

"If you are decided on a church ceremony, see your parish priest as soon as possible."