Brides & Grooms – A service of celebration

“It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well assorted. A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.” – Theodore Parker

All are warmly invited to attend a special service celebrating marriage at 5:30pm on Sunday 5th July in St Bride’s Church, which has sanctified marriages for 1500 years.

We aim to welcome back as many of our past wedding couples as possible – whether they were married here recently, or have celebrated dozens of anniversaries – for a special service followed by a celebratory drink in the churchyard.

The service will include hymns, readings and a number of the most-popular musical choices that our wedding couples make (see below) performed by St Bride’s Choir.

There will also be a congregational prayer as an Act of Renewal, celebrating the blessings marriage has brought us and asking for forgiveness for the times when we have fallen short of our vows.

This is also an opportunity to remember and reflect for those whose spouses have died or whose marriages have not stood the test of time.

Join us for a glass of fizz and a chance to catch-up after the service.
 

Music

Music will be announced closer to the event but we can assure you a real musical treat is in store, like all our wedding services at St Bride’s.

Admission

This service is open to all, ticketless and free to attend. A crèche room will be available for any who wish to bring small children.

It would help us immensely with our planning if you could kindly let the office know if you are able to come – please email: stb@stbrides.com or phone 020 7427 0133.

Support St Bride’s

St Bride’s is wholly reliant on and deeply grateful for the generous support of our visitors and congregation.

We have been holding weddings at St Bride’s for 1500 years and hope to do so for the next 1500 and we need you to play a part in helping us achieve that.

There will be a retiring collection at the end of the service to support the work, ministry and music-making of St Bride’s and help maintain our magnificent Wren church.

Donations can be made by cash or contactless at church or via JustGiving.

Do please Gift Aid your donation if you are eligible which generates an extra 25p in every £1 donated.

Additional Information

A crèche room will be available for any who wish to bring small children.

Directions to St Bride’s Church and information about accessibility are available on our Visit Us page.

EV’N like two little bank-dividing brooks,
That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams,
And having rang’d and search’d a thousand nooks,
Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames,
Where in a greater current they conjoyn:
So I my best-beloved’s am; so he is mine.

– Francis Quarles