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Coverage of civil wedding ceremonies by professional wedding photographers is currently not allowed in many parts of UK.

Where photography is allowed, it is often restricted to a few photos of the exchange of rings, and a setup photo of the signing of the marriage register.

Many couples opt to use a documentary photographer for their wedding, who takes photographs throughout the day, with little or no posing of the couple, aiming to record a story of the day. The ban on photography during Civil Ceremonies leaves a gap in the coverage of the wedding, usually one of the most emotional and important parts of the day for the couple.

There is no law in the UK banning photography during these events, but instead it is left to the whim of the district or registrar presiding.

This petition is for the government to issue guidelines instructing all registrars offices to allow professional photography throughout ceremonies.

Current signatories

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• Neil Palmer
• Kristie Bararuk-Harkness
• Simon Atkins
• Richard Wall
• Mark Newcomb
• Douglas Fry
• David Bland
• Roger Eldridge
• Gemma Seager
• Mark Bailey
• fiona nicholl
• Stuart Schofield
• Dick King
• S King
• Michael Kwasniak
• lisa simmons
• Julie Copestake
• Samantha Clayton
• Neil Luxford
• Iain Bain
• Yvonne Blume
• kate Evans
• Beverley Davies
• tracey ralph
• Andrew Main
• gary allen
• allan warner
• John Blythe
• Savvakis Kafouris LMPA
• Julian Porter
• Sue Porter
• Tom Millington
• Zoe Richards
• Hayley Denston
• Simon Carr
• Robert Allison LMPA
• Janette Johnson
• Sarah Harris
• Carl Ebrey
• Gary Evans LMPA, LSWPP
• Russ Pullen
• Nigel Eddleston-Dike
• barry moir
• Mark Robinson
• Peter Evans
• Julie Eddleston-Dike
• Glen Diamond
• Jonathan Wilson lmpa lbipp lswpp
• Chris Waite
• peter howlett
• George Monaghan
• Charley Wood
• Phil Scott
• Ann Johnson
• Lesley Pattinson
• Caroline Pilling
• Fiona MacNeill
• Jon Rouston
• David Murray
• Kevin McEvoy
• Courtenay Hitchcock
• bob rayner
• Derek Gale
• Jacqui Pullar
• Joanne Mullally
• Patricia Hewlett
• Simon Godfrey
• Stephen J Morgan
• Teri Murakami
• Lisa Wood
• Chris Fletcher
• Yasmin Mariess
• Mark Hughes LMPA LBIPP DiPP
• Stephen Gisborne
• Paul Saxby
• Johanna Bathgate
• Duncan Boyd
• Carl Bromwich
• John Baikie
• Mike Shankster
• Michael Bennett
• Dave Stephenson
• nehal Deliwala
• simon Clubb
• Gavin Wright
• Rod Wheelans
• Thomas Bonnar
• Anil Tohani
• Debbie Hardy
• Adam Matheson
• Clive Blair
• Morag MacDonald
• Mark Lean
• Emma Sanderson LMPA
• Sharron Lean
• Alexander M Weir
• Beder Kaddouri
• Donna Wells
• Michael Doyle
• Andrew James Mulvaney
• Andrew Pearman
• Andrew Daykin
• Nicola Gurney
• Jo Pearson
• Michael Otley
• Andrew Burgess
• Christopher Shirley
• laetita perrot
• julie wiltshire
• Andrea J Chee
• Mal Durbin
• Christine Durbin
• Maria Murray
• Simon Morley
• Peter Hibbit
• kevin moore
• Roy Mathieson
• Alan Cullen
• Louisa Coulthurst
• Brian Cassidy
• Pascale Rodot
• Susan Lowe
• Adrian Gladwin
• Angus Boyd LMPA
• Mike McDonagh
• sandra mcleod
• Andy watson LBIPP LSWPP
• Jo Doran
• Julie Cooke
• Georgia Thomson
• Stephen Weston
• Jo Tennant
• Fran Robinson-Holt
• Paul RG Haley
• David Pearce
• Marsha Iredale
• Matt Pereira
• Ozzie Malik LBIPP
• Joanne Bullock
• Maurice Neesam
• Paul Maven
• PHILIP NIXON
• Jennifer Wark
• Ann Simmons
• Sarah Loveland
• Patrick Stubbs
• Jonathan Pritchard
• Martin Barnard
• Sarah Deakins
• joanne doody
• Gavin Anderson
• Robert Clark
• Alex Durasow
• Christopher E. Winpenny LBIPP, LMPA
• Julie Lovegrove
• Emma Holland
• David Ward LMPA
• Maurice Wright LBIPP LMPA
• Rebecca Burgess
• Jacqui Matthews
• Tim Simms
• Martin Gilsenan
• John Doran
• paul eddom
• Paul Hattam LMPA
• Robert Hooper
• Helen Bailey
• David Thexton LMPA LBIPP
• Kevin Maunton
• Martin Currie
• Samantha Hook
• David Hughes
• Ian Lancashire
• Rowena Joyner
• Michael Rich LMPA
• Simon Kemp
• carol cowan
• Donna Powell
• Rosa Wells
• victoria banks
• Kay Smith
• Sonia Goldby JP
• STEPHANIE CARTWRIGHT
• Keith Wiskin LBIPP LMPA
• kelly jones
• Sarah Kemlo
• Paula Lancashire
• Polly Edwardson
• Michael Trafford
• Emma-Jane Anderson
• rachael edwards
• Emma Giles
• Edwrad Ridgway Watt
• Paul Birkett
• Richard Belsham
• Tim Teasdale LMPA LBIPP
• James Davidson
• DUNCAN MALLOCH
• KDH
• A Neatham
• Craig Prentis
• David Armour
• Suzanne Fossey
• claire dixon
• Martin Hambleton
• Alan Buglass
• Rhia Roffey
• Susan Johnson
• Tracy Burr
• Amanda Gowland
• Tim Clark
• Norma Dean
• Ken Cloke LBIPP LMPA
• Natasha Jackson
• Gareth Fisher
• Matthew Lowe
• Lucy Woods
• David Simpson
• David Norwood
• Ian Bursill
• stacey barker
• lee Glasgow
• Leah Earl
• suzanne simpson
• jennifer lee
• Ann Hodson
• Andy Griffin LMPA LSWPP LBIPP
• Jeff Ellis
• Mike Curry
• Gavin Hart
• Brian Brown
• Linda Campbell
• Paul Bonning-Tyers
• Elaine & Jorge Borges-Ibañez
• Philip Ryott
• V.K.Verma
• Louise Wilkinson
• kerry flitter
• Nicola Horton
• John Galozzi
• Dennis Orchard
• alan ray LMPA LSWPP
• phiilip johnson
• Malvin Renshaw
• Jagdish Mistry LMPA
• Ivor Schwartz
• Mark Dalton
• Michael O'Sullivan
• Suzi Allen
• Robert Waite
• Tony Bramley
• Beth Morgan
• Maria Davis-Fernandez
• Roger Keyse
• Helen Renshaw
• Andy Craig
• Nicola Steventon
• charles haines
• Keith Gold LMPA
• Kelvin Myles
• Andrew Wells LMPA
• linda jenkins
• b j haggerty
• Adrian Thomas
• Mike Roberts
• cherie coleman
• Michael Gilmore
• Jennie Wyer
• Vikki Quincey
• Philip Edwards
• Julie Hankinson
• Brian Harte
• Collin Davies
• mark broadwith
• Ian Stewart
• Claire T
• Photography by Michael
• Richard King
• Martin Titley (ex-ABIPP..retired)
• Daniel Valla
• Michael Dearden
• Chris Borchardt
• Stuart Rook
• Sarah Gregory
• Martin Chivers LMPA,LBIPP,LSWPP
• MICHAEL BENNETT
• Tony Hanrahan
• Keith Owens
• Mark Miller
• M Milani
• David Ruddle
• Phil Barber
• Caroline Vernon
• Mark Cornwell
• Chesley Whillians
• Lloyd Dobbie
• Graham Sharpe
• Ria-Louise Housley
• Suzie Davidson-Kelly
• Piers Calascione
• David Guest
• Earle Peacock
• John Shopland
• Farouk Ali
• Gordon Mackinnon
• Caroline Hodson
• Lisa Yeomans
• Aasish Kiri
• simon peace
• David Stewart
• sally langstaff
• Howard Hart
• Lorraine Martin
• Rebecca Anderson
• Sharon Spencer of Treasured Forever
• Mick Spencer of Treasured Forever
• Catherine Thomas
• Daveid A Elsdon LBIPP
• Ian Barker
• steve clarke
• Robert Smith
• Andrea Hargreaves
• Alan Playford
• Julian Sheppard
• Catherine Monfils
• Charles Etheridge-Nunn
• Nicola Robson
• Steve Shipman
• charlotte deane
• John Prater LBIPP LMPA
• Mike Patterson
• Nick Everitt
• Patricia Rayner ABIPP
• Gareth Heesom
• Matthew Sanderson
• Simon Feeney
• Laura McBeth
• Deborah Stott
• John Miles
• Alison Groves
• Jennifer Brown
• Nicholas Pearce
• Gavin Richmond
• Joanne Rowe
• Tom Crane
• Paul Dickinson
• Mick House
• John Barker
• Derek Barrett, LSWPP
• Wendy J Lilygreen
• Chris Holmes
• Chris crowhurst
• Dale Chalk
• Rachel Colclough
• Alan Tanswell
• Angela Chapman
• Zodie Hawkins
• Simon Revill
• Catherine
• Dean Carney
• Jen Pope
• Fiona Grier
• John Devlin
• Tim Jacobs
• Simon Mark Whitten
• SUZANNE OLDRIDGE
• freff
• John Denton
• Brian Jobson
• Mark Aldridge
• kitty kitts
• Ken Brown
• Nicola Maxwell
• Ian Grafton
• Emma Grafton
• Victoria Coulter
• Matt Symons
• ray_whitfield@yahoo.com
• Gary Bridgeman
• Richard Walker
• Ben Carter
• Jo Menneer
• Sandra Hamon
• F Colson
• andrew kimpton
• Peter O'Reilly
• Rachel Walkden
• Rebecca Shoobert
• sabrina stone
• Jez Dickson
• david purslow
• Deborah Goodwin
• Laura Bedell-Pearce
• Paul Birchenough
• Laura Lockley
• Keith Meadley LMPA
• Daniel Oxtoby
• Marianne Ginger
• Liam Slater
• A Walker
• Jane Peacock
• Deborah Hurst
• Jon Eland
• Martyn Moore
• Camilla Chafer
• L Coughlan
• Jane Mckinley
• Seppi Eugene Preston
• Roger Burlison BA (hons)
• Andrew Kettle
• Susan Budge
• Ben Palmer
• Jo Broadhead
• David Littlejohns
• Isabel Clark
• Kirsten Blissett
• Nigel Paul
• David Bannister
• maria walton
• Matt Davis
• Bryan Angelinetta
• Nicholas Mark Blackman
• Adrian Gill
• jennifer omo-olaye
• Gary Powell
• Amanda West
• Gary Williams
• Lee Cumberbatch
• Sean Pines
• Tammy
• Jim Hamilton
• laurence parmenter
• Peter Huntley
• Andrew Sheppard
• Lorraine Davie
• Jim Fryer
• carol watkins
• emma
• Memfis
• Antony Valentino
• Caroline Read
• Paul Janik, Slough Party
• nancy chamberlain
• sharon chamberlain
• Roopesh Pandya
• Filomena Valentino
• Antonio Valentino
• Barbara Valentino
• anthony thomas
• Richard Craig
• Viktoria Sargent
• Christopher Winton
• Angela Michaels
• J. Shamaal
• reg Clark
• Alistair McGregor
• Adam Ward
• michael holt
• Kim Trill
• Paul Dorney
• Hilary Dorney
• James Hopkins
• james carroll
• Maria Bowe
• Nadine Jones
• Catherine Whyte
• Rhian Neslany
• Estelle Cox
• Zoe Woods
• Christopher Davies
• Steven John Peter Spall
• Simon Hardy
• Mike Hughes
• douglas brown
• James Anderson
• John G.M. Moore
• Karen Addison
• Jerry Fenner LRPS LBPPA
• Christopher Wilson
• helen norrie
• Sandra Read
• Nick Stearn
• Mark Lambert
• lisa gore
• Kim Laughton
• Alex Kilbee
• Sian Fowler
• Kris Pendlebury
• Oliver Eves
• Mary-Carol Dack
• Michael Dobbs
• michelle valentine
• Oliver Jones
• brian varney
• Christopher Binding
• Stuart Holttum
• Stuart Leather
• Stephen Davies
• Frances Shailer
• J Parton (amateur and professional to be allowed)

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