Hi ,

My DH and i kind of eloped this May we went and got married in Europe. I only told my Mum Dad my brother and my Grandmother as the all live in Austria were we got married. I tried to do the right thing and invited my part of the family, as i have left home quite early and i am living here in Australia now ,with my husband so my mum already misses out on a big part of my life.
The wedding was great and its quite inexpensive, when i got back and wanted to ?register? my marriage here in Australia i was told that it can?t be done which is quite upsetting as it would mean that my DH could just get married again in Australia ??? odd , however after getting my overseas marriage certificate translated ? i was finally able to at least change all my bank acc driving licence and so forth so its all good now...
Back to my story - When we got back home and broke the news to DH family they were quite sad as they also wanted to be part of it ? so we decided now to have a wedding vows renewal in 2010 which is coincidently also our 10 year anniversary and if things go well we might be a mum & dad by then and will do it all in one and have the bub?s christening at the same time...this time round, we will invite close friends and family, but again fly away ( keeps the guest list small) we will be going to the White Sundays /Hamilton Island they have some fantastic packages there and we just tell the people we invite to just bring themself rather than a present. So all in all it will be a WIN WIN situation