This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Allow small wedding ceremonies during COVID-19
Currently no wedding ceremonies are being allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This made sense at the beginning, when all non essential services were being stopped; however now that non essential businesses are being allowed to reopen, small wedding ceremonies should be allowed to go ahead.
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It is understandable that large weddings that would involve a lot of people should not be able to go ahead at this time, but to have an outright ban on weddings is wholly unfair, especially as non essential businesses are now able to re-open.
You only need 5 people in order to get married - the couple, two witnesses & the registrar, and so long as this can be socially distanced, then these ceremonies should be allowed to go ahead.
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Since you started your petition the Government has announced that weddings are able to take place, and has published guidance for small marriages and civil partnerships: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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