Approved venue weddings
Booking and organising a marriage or civil partnership at the register office or at an approved venue.
If you are getting married in an approved venue, agree a provisional date and time the of the wedding with the venue before continuing. If you want to be married at either Darlington register office or at one of our approved venues then you should:
- Use the online enquiry form to contact us to find out if we are available on the date and time you want. Please do not contact us by telephone or email for availability as we are a busy office.
- You must know approximately where and when you want to be married before contacting us.
- We will contact you and confirm if the date and time is available or offer you an alternative.
You will then have a provisional booking which will be on hold for a month. This will give you time to be sure that you want the venue, date and time.
- Within that month you need to complete the booking form and return it to us either by post or by email.
- You must also pay for the ceremony in full at the time off booking, you cannot pay in instalments. You can pay here on our payments webpage by quoting the reference given to you by the register office.
- We will confirm the booking by email and advise you about giving notice of marriage.
Our approved venues:
Redworth Hall Hotel [external link]
The Blackwell Grange Hotel [external link]
Walworth Castle hotel [external link]
Hotel Bannatyne [external link]
Hallgarth Golf and Country Club hotel [external link]
Darlington Hippodrome [external link]
The Pease Suite, Backhouse Hall, Dolphin Centre [external link]
Darlington Arena [external link]
Once you have chosen a venue, contact the Register Office as soon as possible. We advise you to make arrangements with the Register Office before making any final bookings with venues.