You can get married at any of our churches if you or your parents have lived in any of the parishes in the benefice for more than six months. 

You can also get married here if you were baptized here or if your parents or grandparents were married here. These are called qualifying connections. You can create one by worshipping at a church in the benefice every month for six months. 

It sounds complicated but please contact us to talk through a possible ceremony here as we have done it lots of times!

Although we try to hold as many weddings as possible at St Edward's Church, sometimes it is not possible to create a qualifying connection by attendance. Couples may live too far away from Stow-on-the-Wold to attend monthly for six months. When this is the case we can hold a wedding blessing in our ancient churches if you have been through a civil marriage conducted elsewhere. The blessing service can have all the traditional features of bells, bridesmaids, flowers, hymns and friends and family all dressed up. Alternatively, it can be a blessing with just the couple.

For 2025 costs for a wedding or blessing start at £541 for the service. A team of bellringers, the organist and flowers are charged separately if you want to use them.  We have plenty of local hotels and restaurants for a wedding breakfast for two or two hundred.

Please contact us on [email protected] to find out how we can make your wedding or blessing a very special day.

The small print:

We would need to see a marriage certificate prior to a blessing  service. 

Canon Law does not allow us to bless same sex couples which is a great sadness, but this is where we are in 2025.