Now that you have the names of your great grandparents you should be in a position to go back to the GRO Indexes. You will now look for the record of their marriage. Start with your grandfather's birth date or from the birth of the eldest child and work your way backwards. Looking at each quarter of each year until you find it.
I always tend to look up the marriage under the spouse who had the least common surname. If your name is Smith or maybe Jones in Wales - Good Luck!
Once you have managed to get back far enough so that you have reached people who were alive during 1911 in England or Wales then you may be able to find them in the 1911 census at http://www.1911census.co.uk/. Once you get back to 1901 you can use Find My Past or Ancestry to search through the census.
I personally prefer Ancestry and you can also find Scottish Census transcriptions on this site. If you want to see the original Scottish census images then you will have to download them for a fee at the Scotlands People website.
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