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To make a wedding *legal*, I believe you need a registrar. After that, I believe that if your church gives you the right to deliver a marital blessing, then you can. The marital blessing is what C of E priests give on top of the legal marriage, which is why among other things some c of E priests will not remarry those who have divorced - because they made a commitment to God to stay together, received the blessing and then rescinded on their promise.
So....I'm not sure your friend *can* perform the ceremony, in the sense that he cannot legally declare two people married. However, if you have a word with the registrar he should be able to do a speech, reading, blessing, whatever else is superfluous to the legal act of putting their names in the book...
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