Hi everyone - I have been a lurker for a long time, been planning my wedding since last March but this is my first time posting.
We are getting married abroad, we can't legally marry in the country the wedding is booked in so we are doing a registry office legal ceremony here and then doing official wedding later in the year (either have to be a native resident or have lived in the country for a certain amount of time).
As part of the basic registry office ceremony we are only allowed two people as witnesses (unless we wanted to then add on another £800 charge for room hire for an events room, which defeated the object and budgets). We couldn't pick just one of each set of parents to be witnesses as we thought this wasn't very fair so we decided to just get some strangers on the street to be witnesses beforehand. However I am now panicking that we won't be able to find anyone on the day! We both have multiple siblings too so can't just pick a sibling.
I just wondered if anyone was free in the Hornchurch area on Tuesday 2 July 2019 and would fancy being a witness!? Ceremony is at 9.45am. We would hopefully not need much of your time, just the ceremony and then you could be on your merry way as we will be heading home straight after.
Thanks in advance everyone :-)