Getting married tomorrow / elopement

[Glitterbells9]

& no one knows 🤣 we’ve been together ages, telling a few adults and 2 children in the morning… Im all churned up inside.

Non traditional, we are arriving together, registry office to make ‘us’ official.

If anyone has done a ‘surprise’ wedding how did you announce it? On social media?

Oh I wasnt aware!

I was under the impression they had to be adults/over 16 (mine are 9 and 10) xx

They were fine, as were our friends. We weren't young - I was 42 and he was 34.

Congratulations 🎊 @Glitterbells9 wishing you a wonderful day 🎉🥳🎊🍾🥂

How exciting!

I need to stop over thinking, I wont apologise, Il tell the closest people before my social media post… I doubt many people will tell us they are unhappy and if they do, tough.

It is what suits us and what we are happy with ❤️

I doubt Id manage to drip feed people in time as our children will tell the whole world 🤣🤣🤣 xx

Congratulations in advance.

Weddings can be expensive and stressful especially in today's economy.A wedding is about the couple getting married and what they want.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

Congratulations. I went to a wedding yesterday that would have cost quite a bit of money. I looked at the happy couple and thought 'what are you doing?' - not because they were getting married but spending so much money on one day and all the endless preparation and fuss...but again I am quite old and got married with a couple of witnesses followed by a drink in a pub.

Ah congratulations that’s lovely.

Don’t feel the need to apologise to people though! It’s your life and your decision, it’s great you are doing it the way you want to.

Think it would be a bit exhausting calling / texting everyone so I would probably just do a social media update and enjoy it.

Good luck for tomorrow!

We have a family WhatsApp group and we put a picture of the Gretna green road sign and the boxes containing our wedding rings with a caption "guess what we're doing tomorrow ". We told family and close friends the night before and fb announcement afterwards.

We had been together 16 years and both introverts who hate being centre stage and also it was second time round for both of us. It was a perfect day.

We had my best friend as a witness, my ex sister in law and a best mate of my husband there. Husband told his ex partner a few days later. Our children were also aware at the time.

We eloped in Edinburgh. Was absolutely the best thing for us. It was perfect, we got ready together, laughed all day and have an amazing city to visit and reminisce

We eloped in Edinburgh. Was absolutely the best thing for us. It was perfect, we got ready together, laughed all day and have an amazing city to visit and reminisce

Weddings and Marriages are not the same thing.

Be happy. Thats all that matters.

Friends did this nearly 30 years ago, everyone was delighted for them. They weren't the type to want a big formal thing. They did if because it made some citizen ship things simpler, otherwise they'd have stayed as they were.

My brother and his wife (second marriage for both) went to the registry office and their daughters who were over 16 were the witnesses. Again, everyone happy for them.

Have a lovely day, @Glitterbells9 , and congratulations. I wish you many happy years together.

Fanta!!

We did this 30 years ago so before social media. We were both pretty young and didn't want the fuss of a big wedding (and couldn't have afforded it anyhow).
My mother was upset - but would have been upset whatever I'd done - everyone else thought it was great!

I've never regretted it for a second. Have a brilliant day tomorrow!

We eloped to Las Vegas - we'd been together by then for 15yrs already - couldn't be arsed with big wedding esp being from 2 different countries.

Congratulations!
I knew a young couple years ago who wanted a small wedding. The parents started to organize the wedding of the century. So, young couple booked a register office for the 1st wedding of the day. They were both keen horseriders, they got up, went horseriding, nothing unusual, rode to the register office, grabbed 2 people off the street, got married and rode home to tell parents.
I thought what an excellent way it was to get a nice quiet wedding! The parents had suspected nothing.

You are overthinking yes but that is all part of the build up!

Once it is done then announcing will be easier as you know that whatever anybody says/doesn't say, you got to have the wedding that you wanted.

Do you want to tell us more? What are your plans afterwards? Are you wearing something special? Is it early in the day?

Hope you have a lovely wedding, we eloped and I asked both set of parents if they minded if we just eloped one day. They all said would like to be there but accepted it was our decision. So we just eloped at quiet time of year and told them afterwards, then took them out for meal to celebrate. Some other family members were put out as wanted party etc but got over it. Best thing ever for us - no stress, so special, loved it.

I can imagine it was beautiful, but 10-20-30k for one day blows my mind.

xx

Arh sounds lovely! Xx

Thats very true. Its my nerves and anxiety I guess.

3pm so we have to wait all day 🤣

Im wearing a white slim fitting dress with a lace type patten in sparkles ✨ Id say typical beach/registry wedding dress not Church/ over the top style.

Going to a pub which has a private for hire area in the grounds that is small and intimate with fairy lights/ a speaker for music, we’ve hired it just for the meal to be in private.

xx

Sounds perfect, I kind of wish we had no guests 🤣🤣🤣 but we caved for 3 adults. Plus our children, My partner was open to more immediate family but I wasnt.

xx

It sounds perfect OP.

Very excited for you, have the best time🎉🎉

Ah wow. Have an amazing day. It sounds perfect. Keep us all posted if you can. Obviously not tomorrow as you will be having a wonderful wedding.

Now that is cool😎