Married by Certificate?

[MaryA]

Hi all, first time I've come across a Marriage by Certificate (on the actual certificate where it usually says Banns/ Licence etc. I'm thinking that this probably was because of the locations, both bride and groom lived at a distance but came back to their birthplace of Bootle to be married in the Presbyterian Institute on Bailey Drive.

Has anybody come across one of these before and have any idea whether the certificates or reasons behind it may still exist?

[retiringtype]

It's to do with it being a non-conformist church. See https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Ma ... _and_Wales

[MaryA]

As simple as that! thank you Retiringtype, don't suppose I'll find anything out from that particular register as I can't find where, if at all, that church's registers are.