Both parents, not just the father, will now be named on marriage certificates in England and Wales.
Mothers of brides and grooms in England and Wales will now be added to marriage certificates for the first time.
The government said the creation of a single electronic register, which goes live on Tuesday, would speed up the process and remove the need for any details to be extracted from hard copies.
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