Oundle Registration Office

This is a slightly difficult review for me because the Oundle Court House itself is goooorgeous! My sister was married here and I loved it (so I was keen to get married here too…) If you want to see the Oundle Museum, or just look around the beautiful building, it is totally worth a peek.
The registrars, Jane Humphries and Andy Wyman, that were there on the day of our wedding, were fantastic, and I did really, really enjoy both our ceremony and the rest of the day.
However I wasn’t impressed with the Northampton registration system at all… All Northampton registry venues are run from one central office, so they never seem to know what is happening in the venues they represent.
The downsides:
— It is really hard to get through to them on the phone.
— They didn’t bother to forward the paperwork I had spent hours putting together, so Marc had to re-​tell them everything after he arrived (this meant I had to stand outside waiting to be let in as his interview over-​ran.)
— They wouldn’t answer my e-​mails about who would marry us, and (of course) we didn’t have a chance to meet them or ask questions until a few minutes before the wedding started… so it was a little stressful.
— They only told us that they’d put scaffolding around the venue for repairs the day before my wedding. Er, thanks.
— They only told me I needed «authorities» a couple of days before the wedding, so I had to rush around to work out what they were talking about… and then take time off work to pick them up from our local council in London.
All in all I don’t think I’d recommend getting married here as you’ll have to deal with their incredibly impersonal service.