On July 19, the Law Commission of England and Wales released a 452-page report (full text) on reform of English weddings law. The Commission summarized its recommendations:
We recommend comprehensive reform from the foundations up: an entirely new scheme to govern weddings. Our recommendations will transform the law from a system based on regulation of buildings to one based on regulation of the officiant responsible for the ceremony.
Under our recommendations, all couples, as well as all religious groups and (if enabled by Government to conduct weddings) non-religious belief groups, will have the freedom to decide where and how their weddings will take place.
Law & Religion UK has extensive discussion of the proposals.
