To see marriage as an admin task!!

[Edenspirits73]

DP and I have been together for 25 years today - never really been that bothered about getting married but as we have got older, have seen the legal protection it offers as probably important. We have just been busy raising our kids etc.

Thinking now of popping down the registry office one Friday and just doing it- I do honestly see it as an admin task - I know it’s wildly unromantic but after 25 years, that’s how it is 😂 I can’t be bothered with the expense or organisation of a wedding!!

Anyone else done it this way and it’s been
ok? Weirdly I have a couple of sets of friends in the same position and we have talked about all doing it together and being each others witnesses!

Aibu? I don’t want to offend anyone!

I have a number of friends who did it this and it was no problem.

Yep. We got a civil partnership last year. We got the super cheap version where the only people in the room were the registrars, us and our two witnesses
We took our witnesses out to lunch to thank them to travelling to do it.

I bought a £30 dress in a coast sale which I have already worn to a couple of events

We only wanted the legal protection of a civil partnership. We were in and out in 20 minutes. No photos, no rings, no fuss. Followed by lunch with our best friends. I don't think I would ever do it any other way. Very few people know we have done it. We had been together 17 years prior to this