I think there is some mileage in 'the CofE is the official church, so don't I have a right to get married in a CofE church' though. We (the CofE) can't (or shouldn't IMO) get away with the privileges we get from being the state church without the costs of having to marry people who don't regularly attend.
OTOH people don't have a right to get married at any church they want - AFAIK they only have a right to get married at a church in their parish (or possibly one they regularly attend, although one of your commenters said this is not the case - I suspect the vicar has a wide leeway to do things how they want in these cases). They certainly don't have a right to turn it in to a non-Christian service, or to have things the vicar deems inappropriate in the service though :-)
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I think there is some mileage in 'the CofE is the official church, so don't I have a right to get married in a CofE church' though. We (the CofE) can't (or shouldn't IMO) get away with the privileges we get from being the state church without the costs of having to marry people who don't regularly attend.
OTOH people don't have a right to get married at any church they want - AFAIK they only have a right to get married at a church in their parish (or possibly one they regularly attend, although one of your commenters said this is not the case - I suspect the vicar has a wide leeway to do things how they want in these cases). They certainly don't have a right to turn it in to a non-Christian service, or to have things the vicar deems inappropriate in the service though :-)