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Please talk to me about your secret wedding.

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gaggiagirl · 03/07/2016 19:35

I'll be as brief as possible.
DP and me are shy, introverted, unsociable 😀 private people.
I am very pregnant with our third DC.
We want to be married. We don't want a big fuss made. We are cringing at the thought of getting married in front of anyone people.
So we've booked a week day morning register office ceremony for just us two and two.witnesses.

If I tell my parents I know for a fact thatI.would hear the following..... .
You have to invite xxxxx
You have to have a party
You can't wear that
You have to tell xxxxxx
They just wouldn't respect our wishes for a private, zero fuss legal whatnot.

I confided in my sister. My sister said.....
You can't get married like that.
Why not ask xxxxxx to pay for it so you can have a bigger do.
You have to have a cake.
You have to have...etc etc.

Urgh. Just talk to me about it. I really don't want to upset anyone. I just want my wedding my own way.

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toooldtobeyoungandstupid · 19/09/2016 10:50

Florabella22 do you mind me asking where your runaway wedding was?

MetalLaLa curious as to why you'd have less witnesses in hindsight?

Witnesses are the stumbling block for us. Invite two people and alienate the rest, or grab two strangers and feel alienated ourselves?

Ideally it'd just be us and the two sets of parents, but for various reasons that's a recipe for disaster Confused

Jaimx86 · 27/09/2016 22:47

We've just booked flights to Manhattan and will have a City
Hall elopement in April. It's so exciting have a 'secret'!

Wallywobbles · 27/09/2016 22:51

We are planning on having our 4 kids and 2 witnesses each. I've warned my family to avoid offending. First niece getting married next year so that'll make up for it.

MadameCholetsDirtySecret · 27/09/2016 22:57

Lots of so many lovely stories. I'm glad the news was well recieved gaggia.

I went to a MNetter's secret wedding as a witness. It was such a good day.

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