Site of Paul‘s and Ringo‘s weddings

Published: 2009-11-07

Various artists - Marylebone Registry Office

The Marylebone Register Office is today known as the Westminster register office, it is responsible for performing and registering all civil (non-religious) marriages taking place in the City of Westminster.

The register office has played host to two Beatle weddings, Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman got married here on the 12th of March 1969. Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr) and Barbara Goldbach got married here 12 years later on the 27th of April 1981. Despite the many years in between the two weddings the registrar was the same at both ceremonies, Joseph Jevans.

Paul was the only Beatle present at his wedding, Ringo's wedding in 1981 was attended by the remaning three Beatles, Ringo, Paul McCartney, George Harrison. John Lennon had been murdered four months earlier.

In 1997 Liam Gallagher of Oasis secretly married Patsy Kensit here, the couple divorced in 2000. On Valentines day of 2008, the 14th of Feburuary, Liam once again tied the knot at the register office, this time to his girlfriend of eight years, Nicole Appleton.