How do you do a quickie wedding just the two of you?

[warofthemonstertrucks]

What's the Legal bit? Can you shut book in at the earliest possible time at the registry office and do it or does theirs have to be the equivalent church banns read before it or whatever?

DP and I had been planning a big old wedding but for various reasons we just want to dispense with it and get married just us and the kids, and fairly quickly..... but no idea how you go about it really...

[StrikeandRobin]

some info here -good luck!

www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships/give-notice

www.micaelakarina.com/get-married-quickly-uk/

[TeaStory]

You have to give “notice of intention to marry” at your local register office a minimum of 29 days before the ceremony.

www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships/give-notice

[HappyHamsters]

Call the local Registrar office and book it, ask if they can provide 2 witnesses if you have no one who could do that, but mumsnetters do often offer to be a witness if you ask.

[Needmorelego]

You get a license from the registrar office and then you have to wait two weeks. I think your names are displayed in public somewhere for those two weeks as a legal thing.

[Needmorelego]

Ah...not 2 weeks it seems but 29 days.
(I'm sure it used to be 2 weeks).
You can get a special license for certain reasons which you can get married quicker but that's for stuff like being deployed in the army.

[warofthemonstertrucks]

Thanks all- I think we are going to do it and just tell everyone afterwards... it will go down terribly in some quarters but sod it!

[KiraKiraHikaru]

Me and my husband did this. Gave notice and then married a month later with two witnesses. Couldn’t have our children though, you would have to pay for a bigger ceremony.

[columbo83]

I want to do this. Good luck OP

[SilverGlassHare]

We did this - two randoms as our witnesses pulled off the street - best thing we ever did. Good luck OP!

[Bunchymcbunchface]

Unless you go to Gretna Green or abroad you have to give notice.
we are going to vegas to do it - pretty much without telling anyone.

[CautiousPractice]

@Bunchymcbunchface

Unless you go to Gretna Green or abroad you have to give notice.
we are going to vegas to do it - pretty much without telling anyone.

You still have to give notice for a gretna green marriage, between 3 months and 29 days before, to the Gretna register office.

I am getting married in GG and have just done my paperwork.

[Bunchymcbunchface]

Ahh ok.
so it’s the same then.
we are eloping to vegas, you can get your licence and get married the sane day there if you want to. We are getting the licence on the Thursday and getting married on the Saturday.

have a fabulous time in GG x

[Sunfl0wer20]

Oh us too!
when do you get married? We are 2nd December.
just us and our little boy.
Not sure how the family are going to react but don’t really care at this point!

[Sunfl0wer20]

@Sunfl0wer20

Oh us too!
when do you get married? We are 2nd December.
just us and our little boy.
Not sure how the family are going to react but don’t really care at this point!

Sorry this was replying to @CautiousPractice

[Malfi]

Yes, you have to give notice first at the register office where they interview you. You might have to wait for an appointment too. It not like you phone up and you get one the next day. We had to wait quite a while.

[CautiousPractice]

@Sunfl0wer20
We are start of November. Only a month to go pretty much which is both very scary and exciting.
We are taking just our parents and our best friends, 10 guests in all.

We were clear from getting engaged that it would be a small wedding but the final plan ruffled a lot of feathers.

[Theoldwrinkley]

Well done to everyone who takes this route.
I think that the amount of money and stress caused by big weddings inevitably start marriages off on less stable footing....just my (cynical) opinion.
I think we had to give about 4 weeks notice, but that was about 32 years ago. Currently debating as to whether we'll get to 33.

[warofthemonstertrucks]

We have our secret wedding booked for November 17th! I'm really excited!!

[orangegato]

Any wedding goss @warofthemonstertrucks ? Just found this thread and I’m dying to know how it went