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    • Ceremonies and approved venues

      • Plan your wedding or civil partnership ceremony
      • Choose your civil partnership ceremony
      • Ceremonies at Brighton Town Hall
      • Convert a civil partnership to a marriage
      • Apply for a copy of a marriage or civil partnership certificate
      • Ceremony cancellation and amendments policy
      • Naming and family ceremony
      • Renew your vows
      • Commitment ceremony
      • How to licence your venue for ceremonies
      • Public notices: applications to become an approved venue
      • Fees and cancellations for ceremonies
    • Births

      • Register a birth
      • Re-register a birth
      • Apply for a copy of a birth certificate
      • Naming and family ceremony
    • Deaths

      • What to do when someone dies
      • Register a death
      • Find a cemetery or arrange a memorial
      • HM Coroner for Brighton & Hove
      • Brighton & Hove City Mortuary
      • Bereavement support resources
      • Apply for a copy of a death certificate
    • Citizenship

      • Organise your British citizenship ceremony
      • During your citizenship ceremony

Births

Register a new birth or find out when you must re-register a birth and how to do this. Request copies of birth certificates and find out about naming ceremonies.

Register or re-register a birth

Register a birth
Find out how to register a birth in Brighton & Hove and book a birth registration appointment.
Re-register a birth
Find out about situations when you need to re-register a birth, and how to book an appointment to do so.

Birth certificates

Apply for a copy of a birth certificate

Find out how to apply for a copy of a birth certificate, how much it costs and how to obtain certificates from outside of Brighton & Hove.

Arrange a naming ceremony

Naming and family ceremony

Book a celebrant registrar and find out how much it costs to arrange a naming ceremony in Brighton Town Hall or an approved venue.

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