Your elopement stories please!

[JorisBonson]

Our (small) wedding was moved from June to October, which is still looking iffy if we want to have even a small day with a meal or something after.

I had previously discussed elopement with my family who were not happy, at all 🙄.

It's now got to the point where we just want to be married and will deal with any fallout after.

Please let me have your lovely elopement stories and any tips or venues

@LunaNorth

We didn’t elope, as such, but we went to London and got married with just my sons and one of them’s gf as witnesses/guests.

I got my dress from ASOS, we got married at Marylebone Registry Office, DH picked my flowers up from a florist round the corner and handed them to me when I arrived, we had a Spotify playlist for our music, and afterwards we piled into a taxi, had a pint and some chips at Brewdog and dinner at The Ivy to celebrate.

It was a brilliant day.

Now this sounds like my perfect day!

Thank you @LunaNorth we had the best day. Paddle in the (freezing cold, February) sea & then back to the cottage for oven pizza & leftover cake. We FaceTimed our families that evening to tell them & had a pub lunch all together about a month later.

@JorisBonson

Brewdog Bride and Groom!

If you do elope and need witnesses, you could ask MN. There have been quite a few weddings where MNers have done that - I was a witness for one several years ago under another username. It was lovely!

DH and I eloped 26 years ago; our families are complex and dramatic at the best of times, and the thought of having them all together in one place no doubt fighting with each other was too much, so we figured that we were guaranteed to offend someone - and if we were going to offend one person we may as well offend everyone, so we just slipped away to the local registry office.

Best decision I ever made, I've never regretted it for a minute!

[quote LunaNorth]@JorisBonson

Brewdog Bride and Groom![/quote]
Fabulous!! 😍

Anytime I see an OP say 'Let me have your stories...' it's an article in the Daily Fail 3 days later.

@DianaT1969

Anytime I see an OP say 'Let me have your stories...' it's an article in the Daily Fail 3 days later.

I can confirm I am not a journo. I've posted about my wedding a lot of the past year.

And the daily mail can fuck right off.

One of my DBs got married and told us after the event. They didn't elope as such as they got married locally to where they lived with 2 friends as witnesses and then they all 4 went to the pub afterwards. DB rang home the following day to tell my parents. My DM didn't take it well at the time. DF (always the one to find the positive) said at least it saved him having to fork out for a new dress for my mother! DB and SIL are still together 30+ years on.
When I announced I was getting married DF jokingly offered money for us to elope. DM was having none of it!

We got married at the Registry office with my daughters as witnesses. I wore a lovely new (non-weddingy but still quite special) dress, with bridal shoes and matching pearl & crystal headband.

We went home and had bubbly along with cakes, pastries and chocolates (arranged on a little vintage three-tier cake stand to approximate a wedding cake), then in the evening we had a fantastic dinner with the girls at a great seafood restaurant. Spent the night in a hotel.

It was perfect. ❤️

My DH was a little nervous beforehand that people might take offense, but as it turned out no one minded a bit! 👍

I think that these simple weddings sound lovely. It is so easy to get caught up in wanting the whole big white wedding, but the marriage is the thing, and I think a tiny wedding puts the focus back on the marriage, and makes it somehow more touching and romantic.
Tiny weddings have definitely been the happiest too, out of all the weddings I have been to. So much more relaxed.

Resurrecting this as our elopement wedding is booked for the 30th September down in Cornwall and I couldn't be more excited!

yayy congratulations in advance