Weddings

Congratulations

Making the decision to get married is an exciting moment. It is then followed by many other decisions that need to be made. We are delighted you are interested in having your wedding at All Saints’ Church. As the parish church we are here for you as you mark important events in your life. The priest can help you plan your service and make it personal to the two of you.

Why have a Church Wedding?

A wedding in church is steeped in spirituality and tradition. The priest is experienced leading services to mark important moments in one’s life and can work with you to shape the service to reflect both your personalities. Your local church is also a centre of the local community, where all aspects of life are celebrated.

What happens in a Church Wedding?

A church wedding puts your marriage in the context of God’s love for all of creation. As part of the marriage service your family and friends are asked to uphold you in your marriage now and in the years to come. There will be one scriptural reading, but you can have another reading from whatever source you like. You make vows before God and the whole congregation. The rings you give and receive will be given a blessing and the whole congregation prays for you both and your life together. As with any legal wedding you will also need to sign the marriage register. One of the nice things about a church wedding is the opportunity to sing – you can have whatever hymns you like and some people also like to have a singer or choir sing a song or anthem.
After the service, you could have a celebratory drink in church with your guests before moving on to the next part of your day.

Can I get Married at All Saints’ Church?

All Saints’ is the parish church of Child’s Hill, which goes from Dunstan Road in the North to the Hendon Way / Finchley Road Junction in the South, and from Golders Hill Park in the East to Dershingham Road in the West.
Because marriage changes your legal status, there are a number of legal requirements before you can be married. You can marry in church regardless of your beliefs, whether or not you are christened and whether or not you have been a regular churchgoer. Pending other legal requirements, anybody living in the parish of Child’s Hill is eligible to be married at All Saints’ Church. Search for your address on achurchnearyou.com to confirm which parish you live in.

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You can also marry if you can show that one of you or your parents:

  • has at any time lived in the parish for 6 months
  • has at any time regularly attended All Saints’ for at least 6 months.

You can also marry if you can show that one of you:

  • was baptized at All Saints’
  • had a confirmation registered at All Saints’

or if one of one of your parents or grandparents was married at All Saints’.
It is currently not legally possible to conduct same-sex marriages in the Church of England. If you are having a same-sex wedding and would like to consider a service of prayer and thanksgiving afterwards, please speak to the Priest.

How do I book a Wedding at All Saints’ Church?

If you would like to speak to somebody about your wedding or take the first step to booking your wedding at All Saints’, then please come along to the 10am service on a Sunday morning and speak to the priest after the service. This gives you the opportunity to get a sense of the light and airy space. The priest will complete a details form and discuss possible dates and the process going forward.

What happens next?

Before we can reserve the date we ask for a deposit of £100.
Once the deposit is received and the details form is complete you will need to complete preliminaries. This could be a Marriage Schedule (for example if one or both of you is not a national of a country within the European Economic Area). Most often, if you are both UK nationals, the preliminaries will be banns of marriage. This requires that banns be read during the main Sunday service at the parish church where you are resident as well as in the church where you are being married. It is nice if you can be at church to hear the banns read.

If either one of you is divorced there will need to be some additional paperwork completed before the marriage can go ahead.

The priest will meet with you a number of times, to plan the service; to choose music and readings, and to get to know you both better, so that the wedding service is personal to you.

How much does it cost?

Because a church wedding is a legal ceremony, the basic fees are set by parliament. These include:
Publication of banns of marriage £37.00
Certificate of banns issued at time of publication £19.00
Marriage Service in church £544.00
All values are correct from 1 January 2025 but will change.

In addition to the basic fees, if you would like to have music at the service we can provide an organist, who will help you decide what music you would like and can accompany singing and play music during the service will incur additional costs. Some people like to have a singer or a choir to perform an anthem, or an instrument to play during the service. It is also possible for us to arrange flowers for the church if you would like us to. We can also provide a celebratory drink and nibbles for your guests before you all move on to the next part of your day. Speak to us if you would like to do this.
The legal fees above do not cover the heating of the building in winter. All Saints’ is reliant on the generosity of donors, so if you would like to make any additional donation to the church it would be gratefully received. In case of late running, we ask a £100 late arrival deposit.

Basic Organist fee £125.00
Professional singer (cost per person) £100.00
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Instrument (cost per instrument) £100.00
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Basic Flowers £50.00
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Church heating £50.00 (when needed)
Cleaning after Reception £60.00

*Values are approximate and may vary.

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Privacy Notice – General

Your personal data – what is it?

“Personal data” is any information about a living individual which allows them to be identified from that data (for example a name, photographs, videos, email address, or address). Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and other legislation relating to personal data and rights such as the Human Rights Act 1998.

Who are we?

This Privacy Notice is provided to you by the Parochial Church Council (PCC) of All Saints’ Child’s Hill which is the data controller for your data.

The Church of England is made up of a number of different organisations and office-holders who work together to deliver the Church’s mission in each community. The PCC works together with:

  • the incumbent of the parish (that is, our priest-in-charge);
  • the bishops of the Diocese of London; and
  • the London Diocesan Fund, which is responsible for the financial and administrative
    arrangements for the Diocese of London.

As the Church is made up of all of these persons and organisations working together, we may need to share personal data we hold with them so that they can carry out their responsibilities to the Church and our community. The organisations referred to above are joint data controllers. This means we are all responsible to you for how we process your data.

Each of the data controllers have their own tasks within the Church and a description of what data is processed and for what purpose is set out in this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice is sent to you by the PCC on our own behalf and on behalf of each of these data controllers. In the rest of this Privacy Notice, we use the word “we” to refer to each data controller, as appropriate.

What data do the data controllers listed above process?

They will process some or all of the following where necessary to perform their tasks:

  • Names, titles, and aliases, photographs;
  • Contact details such as telephone numbers, addresses, and email addresses;
  • Where they are relevant to our mission, or where you provide them to us, we may process
    demographic information such as gender, age, date of birth, marital status, nationality, education/work histories, academic/professional qualifications, hobbies, family composition, and dependants;
  • Where you make donations or pay for activities such as use of a church hall, financial identifiers such as bank account numbers, payment card numbers, payment/transaction identifiers, policy numbers, and claim numbers;
  • The data we process is likely to constitute sensitive personal data because, as a church, the fact that we process your data at all may be suggestive of your religious beliefs. Where you provide this information, we may also process other categories of sensitive personal data: racial or ethnic origin, sex life, mental and physical health, details of injuries, medication/treatment received, political beliefs, labour union affiliation, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning sexual orientation and criminal records, fines and other similar judicial records.

How do we process your personal data?

The data controllers will comply with their legal obligations to keep personal data up to date; to store and destroy it securely; to not collect or retain excessive amounts of data; to keep personal data secure, and to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and to ensure that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for some or all of the following purposes:

  • To enable us to meet all legal and statutory obligations (which include maintaining and publishing our electoral roll in accordance with the Church Representation Rules);
  • To carry out comprehensive safeguarding procedures (including due diligence and complaints handling) in accordance with best safeguarding practice from time to time with the aim of ensuring that all children and adults-at-risk are provided with safe environments;
  • To minister to you and provide you with pastoral and spiritual care (such as visiting you when you are gravely ill or bereaved) and to organise and perform ecclesiastical services for you, such as baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals;
  • To deliver the Church’s mission to our community, and to carry out any other voluntary or charitable activities for the benefit of the public as provided for in the constitution and statutory framework of each data controller;
  • To administer the parish, deanery, archdeaconry and diocesan membership records;
  • To fundraise and promote the interests of the Church and charity;
  • To maintain our own accounts and records;
  • To process a donation that you have made (including Gift Aid information);
  • To seek your views or comments;
  • To notify you of changes to our services, events and role holders;
  • To send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you. These may include information about campaigns, appeals, other fundraising activities;
  • To process a grant or application for a role;
  • To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical
    area as specified in our constitution;
  • Our processing also includes the use of automated systems when you visit our website including cookies to help improve your experience when browsing our website and personal identifiers from your browsing history to enable us to assess the popularity of the webpages on our website, further information about our use of cookies is available on our website (https://www.allsaintschildshill.com/cookie-policy/)
  • Our processing also includes the use of CCTV systems for the prevention and prosecution of crime.

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Most of our data is processed because it is necessary for our legitimate interests, or the legitimate interests of a third party (such as another organisation in the Church of England). An example of this would be our safeguarding work to protect children and adults at risk. We will always take into account your interests, rights and freedoms.

Some of our processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation. For example, we are required by the Church Representation Rules to administer and publish the electoral roll, and under Canon Law to announce forthcoming weddings by means of the publication of banns.

We may also process data if it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or to take steps to enter into a contract. An example of this would be processing your data in connection with the hire of church facilities.

Religious organisations are also permitted to process information about your religious beliefs to administer membership or contact details.

Where your information is used other than in accordance with one of these legal bases, we will first obtain your consent to that use.

Sharing your personal data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential. It will only be shared with third parties where it is necessary for the performance of our tasks or where you first give us your prior consent. It is likely that we will need to share your data with some or all of the following (but only where necessary):

  • The appropriate bodies of the Church of England including the other data controllers;
  • Our agents, servants and contractors. For example, we may ask a commercial provider to send out newsletters on our behalf, or to maintain our database software;
  • Other clergy or lay persons nominated or licensed by the bishops of the Diocese of London to support the mission of the Church in our parish. For example, our clergy are supported by our area dean and archdeacon, who may provide confidential mentoring and pastoral support. Assistant or temporary ministers, including curates, deacons, licensed lay ministers, commissioned lay ministers or persons with Bishop’s Permissions may participate in our mission in support of our regular clergy;
  • Other persons or organisations operating within the Diocese of London including, where relevant, the London Diocesan Board for Schools and Subsidiary Bodies;
  • On occasion, other churches with which we are carrying out joint events or activities.

How long do we keep your personal data?

We will keep some records permanently if we are legally required to do so. We may keep some other records for an extended period of time. For example, it is current best practice to keep financial records for a minimum period of 7 years to support HMRC audits. In general, we will endeavour to keep data only for as long as we need it. This means that we may delete it when it is no longer needed.

Your rights and your personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

When exercising any of the rights listed below, in order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases we will need you to respond with proof of your identity before you can exercise these rights.

  1. The right to access information we hold on you
    • At any point you can contact us to request the information we hold on you as well as why we have that information, who has access to the information and where we obtained the
      information from. Once we have received your request we will respond within one month.
    • There are no fees or charges for the first request but additional requests for the same data may be subject to an administrative fee .
  1. The right to correct and update the information we hold on you
    • If the data we hold on you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us and your data will be updated.
  1. The right to have your information erased
    • If you feel that we should no longer be using your data or that we are illegally using your data, you can request that we erase the data we hold.
    • When we receive your request we will confirm whether the data has been deleted or the reason why it cannot be deleted (for example because we need it for our legitimate interests or regulatory purpose(s)).
  1. The right to object to processing of your data
    • You have the right to request that we stop processing your data. Upon receiving the request we will contact you and let you know if we are able to comply or if we have legitimate grounds to continue to process your data. Even after you exercise your right to object, we may continue to hold your data to comply with your other rights or to bring or defend legal claims.
  1. The right to data portability
    • You have the right to request that we transfer some of your data to another controller. We will comply with your request, where it is feasible to do so, within one month of receiving your request.
  1. The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time for any processing of data to which consent was sought.
    • You can withdraw your consent easily by telephone, email, or by post (see Contact Details below).
  1. The right to object to the processing of personal data where applicable.
  2. The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Transfer of Data Abroad

Any electronic personal data transferred to countries or territories outside the EU will only be placed on systems complying with measures giving equivalent protection of personal rights either through international agreements or contracts approved by the European Union. Our website is also accessible from overseas so on occasion some personal data (for example in a newsletter) may be accessed from overseas.

Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

Contact Details

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or the information we hold about you or to exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints at:

The Data Controller,
All Saints’ Church
Church Walk, Child’s Hill
London, NW2 2TJ
Email: [email protected]

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

If you have any question regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.