« Reply #24 on: Thursday 28 May 20 16:21 BST (UK) »
For a church (CofE) wedding there would be two original registers - both get signed by the bride/groom.
One is kept by the church, and when full usually gets sent to the county archive. These are the ones you may see images of on Ancestry/FindMyPast etc.
The other, when full, goes to the superintendent registrar of the district concerned and put in their vault.
Most certificates produced these days from old registers will be written out by hand - there is no requirement for the entry to be photocopied. It is possible to do that way although a bit tricky, and some offices may do it if asked, but they don't have to.
Thanks for the explanation, Anthony.
So if the clerk hadn't been diligent in recording the marriage details exactly the same in the two registers, it might lead to a discrepancy in later copies of the record issued by a Register office and the Certificate the Bride and groom took away.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Scott, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott
Essex/Herts: Livermore, Holgate, Law, Day, Myson, Boyton
Norfolk/Suffolk: Stone, Alexander, Tipple, Ingate